is attached, the excess is cut off using a scissors.
the car body is then placed upside down on a piece of foam board or cardboard which is used as a base. pieces of oil based clay are then placed tightly around the perimeter to begin building a wall of clay around the exterior of the model.
the mold maker continues to build up the way wall using small pieces of clay. his objective is to make it level with all of the outside edges of the model.
now that the clay has built up to the outside edges of the model, the mold maker begins to square off the clay using clay 