andym172

It's my mums 50th in a couple of months and I'm thinking of having a brass statue made of my sister and I when we were kids.

I'm thinking it will be around 3ft tall and I'll be wanting it for around New Year time.

Anybody recommend where I could 'commission' (how poncey! ) such a statue? And for anybody who knows anything about this sort of stuff, do you think it's possible within such a short time frame?

David Lock

I'd recommend that you don't post it

Colinj

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Art...ronze/Artists/

Colinj

Although personally i would find it a bit freaky having a mini me sitting in the garden

this one looks quite good - http://www.child-portraits.net/

Jay m A

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This tourist was wandering around the back alleys of London's East End
one day when he bumps into an old antique shop. It's like an antique shop from
one of those old Hammer Horror films, and the bloke behind the counter is a
dead ringer for Peter Cushing. Anyway, while browsing through the objects on
display he discovers a detailed, life-sized bronze sculpture of a rat. The
sculpture is so interesting and unique that he picks it up and asks the shop owner what
it costs. "Ten pounds for the rat, sir," says the shop owner, "and a
hundred pounds more for the story behind it." "A hundred quid?" says the tourist,
baffled. ”You can keep the story, old man, but I'll take the rat."
The transaction complete, the tourist leaves the shop with the bronze
rat under his arm. But as he crosses the street in front of the store, two live
rats emerge from a sewer drain and fall into step behind him. Nervously
looking over his shoulder, he begins to walk faster. But every time he passes
another drain, more rats come flooding out and follow him. By the time he's walked
about half a mile, at least a hundred rats are at his heels, and people begin to
point and shout. He walks even faster, and soon breaks into a trot as multitudes
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comes rushing up to the water's edge a huge trail of rats is behind him. Making a
mighty leap, he jumps up onto a lamp-post, grasping it with one arm while he hurls
the bronze rat into the Thames with the other, as far as he can heave it. Pulling
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seething tide of rats surges over the breakwater into the Thames's murky waters,
where they drown.
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you've come back for the rest of the story," says the owner. "No," says the
tourist, "I was wondering if you have a bronze Man United supporter

andym172

lol!

Thanks for your help...

Turned out to be slightly more expensive than I had thought - £14k per statue, and I wanted two!

Back to the drawing board for now...

tuscan57

try these maybe......

bronzeage 020 7538 1388

Colinj

£14K

Just get a couple ex-shopwindow manequins and stick a picture of your face's on them....BO-SELECTA style