1: Lost-Wax Casting

One of the more exciting traditional art procedures I never got to try — also one of the more time-consuming, expensive, equipment-needing, uncertain and somewhat dangerous, which would probably be why it didn't come up on its own.

Anyway, lost wax casting! 

First an overview of how the process was traditionally done:

Then an in-action sample look at how a professional piece in clay becomes a piece in bronze:

And finally a decidedly more hacked-together version of the same process (illustrating that so long as the core principles are in place, a lot of the rest is negotiable):