# The Birth of a hippo **URL:** \ **Category:** The East Pacific Archive\ **Tags:** social-archive\ **Created:** [January 9, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105 "2009-01-09T06:33:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/848f3c/32.png) [@Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Infinite_Loop)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/1 "2009-01-09T06:33:54Z")
I started making my own Hippo, using the lost wax process here is step 1 ![](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f34338fb30e643359919d5498ed00a58a72e7802.jpeg) I made a small block of wax te begin carving ---
**Author:** ![Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/848f3c/32.png) [@Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Infinite_Loop)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/2 "2009-01-09T06:35:58Z")
and here is part 2 ![](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b545a47a4114756187a8968794f462853c7dbf08.jpeg) I carved on it with a small cheap pocket knife for about the time it takes to watch Walk Hard on DVD. it is hard to make out the detail so far because the wax is semi transparent, I still need to wark on it a bit. to get the details the way I want them ---
**Author:** ![Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Todd_McCloud)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/3 "2009-01-09T06:41:05Z")
Looks awesome! Thinking about painting it to remove the transparency? ---
**Author:** ![Bolshikstan](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Bolshikstan](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Bolshikstan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/4 "2009-01-09T06:41:46Z")
Cool. Have much time on your hands lately? ---
**Author:** ![Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/848f3c/32.png) [@Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Infinite_Loop)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/5 "2009-01-09T06:45:49Z")
that part only took a couple hours as I was watching a movie, the next step will be coating it in a light powder of Talc, then possibly a fine sand, once that hardens I will put it into a plaster mould and let that harden, then melt out the wax and heat the plaster and pour in the melted pewter ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Nice\_Hats](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/dbc845/32.png) [@Really\_Nice\_Hats](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Really_Nice_Hats)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/6 "2009-01-09T13:28:27Z")
Daaaw! ---
**Author:** ![Bolshikstan](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Bolshikstan](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Bolshikstan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/7 "2009-01-10T02:54:39Z")
I am completely envious of your mad skillz. I surely couldn’t do something like this. ---
**Author:** ![Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/848f3c/32.png) [@Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Infinite_Loop)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/8 "2009-01-10T03:37:07Z")
Not to toot my own horn but one day at work a couple years ago I made these from Corks ![](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/uploads/default/original/2X/7/7725a11f64bb46c89fbad0ecd3038db24d1caabe.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Todd_McCloud)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/9 "2009-01-10T03:39:10Z")
Holy crap, Loop - you have a really good creative bone in you! ---
**Author:** ![Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/848f3c/32.png) [@Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Infinite_Loop)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/10 "2009-01-10T03:41:05Z")
and this was carved from a block of green jade, she was supposed to be Julie from the Maxx, ![](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fd847f303c663553c8ebfc161aee2aea1056f93b.jpeg) she is about 3 inches tall, the pixie beside her is smaller, Julie has been dropped twice by people who are too ham handed so no one touches her anymore. I carved her in 97. ---
**Author:** ![Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/848f3c/32.png) [@Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Infinite_Loop)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/11 "2009-01-10T03:41:43Z")
Ive never thought of it that way, I just like to make things ocassionally, ---
**Author:** ![Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Todd_McCloud)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/12 "2009-01-10T03:55:47Z")
I made a puppet once. It was out of basswood. But yeah, multiple mediums are cool - looks pretty good man [https://groups.tapatalk-cdn.com/smilies/52127/1536592185.9788-smiley.gif?ttinline=true](https://groups.tapatalk-cdn.com/smilies/52127/1536592185.9788-smiley.gif?ttinline=true) ---
**Author:** ![Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/848f3c/32.png) [@Infinite\_Loop](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Infinite_Loop)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/13 "2009-01-10T04:03:56Z")
lol, the statue was my Stone period, the boats my Cork period, and now I am in my Metal period, funny part tho is one day, some archeologist will find Julie and make some deduction about her being a fertility goddess. ---
**Author:** ![Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Todd_McCloud)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/14 "2009-01-10T07:24:34Z")
That’s what I initially thought with the jade figure. She reminded me of those ‘mother goddess’ figures one often finds in Eastern Europe from old celts and slavs living in the region. If you bury it, 500 years later you could cause a conspiracy theory! ---
**Author:** ![Emjay](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/user_avatar/forum.theeastpacific.com/emjay/32/10142_2.png) [@Emjay](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Emjay)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/the-birth-of-a-hippo/2105/15 "2023-08-12T03:59:31Z")