Stainless Steel or Fiberglass Resin for a Large Figure
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Brass Sculpture
Modern Large-Scale Cartoon-Style Outdoor Decorative Fiberglass Resin Gorilla Sculpture
Modern Large-Scale Cartoon-Style Outdoor Decorative Fiberglass Resin Gorilla Sculpture is a fiberglass reinforced resin animal figure built to order in our Shenzhen workshop.
Product Overview
What This Piece Is
Modern Large-Scale Cartoon-Style Outdoor Decorative Fiberglass Resin Gorilla Sculpture is a fiberglass reinforced resin animal figure built to order in our Shenzhen workshop.
Animal figures give a public space a focal point that children and visitors approach, which is why malls and parks use them as meeting points.
Fiberglass takes complex modelled shapes that metal cannot be beaten into, and it stays light enough to lift into place without heavy plant.
A sketch, a render or a dimensioned drawing is enough to start a quotation.
Modern Large-Scale Cartoon-Style Outdoor Decorative Fiberglass Resin Gorilla Sculpture produced by Xinhengda Sculpture in Shenzhen
Key Benefits
Why Buyers Specify This Piece
- Moulded in fiberglass reinforced resin, which carries sculpted detail and cartoon proportions that sheet metal cannot reproduce.
- At large scale this animal figure is trial assembled in the workshop, then split into transportable sections with the joints placed where they will not be seen.
- Animal figures give a public space a focal point that children and visitors approach, which is why malls and parks use them as meeting points.
- Anything about this animal figure that has to change for the position it is going into is settled on the drawing, where changes still cost nothing.
- Fixing points and the anchor pattern for this animal figure are drawn before fabrication, so site work is bolt down rather than improvisation.
Application Scenarios
Where It Is Installed
Placed wherever the drawing puts it, with the base and fixing detail set to suit that position for this animal figure.
Who It Is For
The People Who Order This
- Architects matching a animal figure to a material palette that already uses fiberglass resin
- Facility and estate managers replacing a tired feature in the position it is going into with something that needs no repainting
- Landscape architects specifying a finished animal figure as the focal piece for the position it is going into
- Property developers placing a fiberglass resin animal figure in public spaces to anchor an arrival point
Problems It Solves
What This Piece Removes From the Project
- Figurative and cartoon forms are impossible to fabricate economically in sheet metal. A mould makes them repeatable and keeps the weight down for indoor floors and roof terraces.
- A animal figure specified late has to fit dimensions that are already fixed. Working from your drawing means the piece adapts instead of the scheme.
- Suppliers who subcontract the finishing cannot answer for the surface. The fiberglass reinforced resin here is cut, welded and finished under one roof.
- Getting a animal figure into the position it is going into is usually harder than the design assumed. Access is checked before the piece is built, not on delivery day.
Technical Features
How It Is Constructed
- Modelled figure with the internal structure sized for the pose rather than a standard frame
- Fabricated throughout in fiberglass reinforced resin with matching filler where the material is welded
- Panel divisions set out from a developed flat pattern so the fiberglass resin meets without being forced
- Edges and arrises detailed for the contact a animal figure gets in the position it is going into
Specifications
Recorded Specification
| Material | Fiberglass reinforced resin |
|---|---|
| Form | Animal Figure |
| Category | Brass Sculpture |
| Size | Quoted per project |
| Minimum Order | Quoted per project |
| Placement | Outdoor |
| Packing | Foam lined plywood crate built to the finished geometry |
| Origin | Shenzhen China |
Dimensions, weight and lead time for this animal figure are confirmed with the quotation, because it is built to your drawing rather than to a brass sculpture catalogue size.
Materials
What It Is Made From
- Fiberglass reinforced resin
- Stainless or galvanised fixings sized for this animal figure and supplied with it
Manufacturing Process
How It Is Made
1
Clay or digital modelling of the master form
2
Mould making from the approved master
3
Hand laminating of the fiberglass shell
4
Demoulding, trimming and seam filling
5
Fine sanding and primer coats
6
Colour coating and clear topcoat
Quality Control
What Is Checked and When
- Master form signed off before the mould is cut
- Laminate thickness checked at the thin sections
- Seams filled and sanded until they read as one surface
- Colour matched against the approved sample under daylight
- Topcoat film checked for runs and orange peel
Customisation Options
What Can Be Changed
- Design developed from your sketch, render or reference photograph
- Finish changed between mirror, brushed and coloured coating on the same animal figure
- Base detail changed between a flush plate, a plinth and a direct planting bed fixing
- The animal figure split into transportable sections where access to the position it is going into is restricted
Comparison
How It Compares With the Alternatives
Compared with Cast bronze
Bronze is heavier, slower and far more expensive per piece. Fiberglass gives the same modelled form at a fraction of the weight and lead time, with colour options bronze cannot match.
Compared with Buying through a trading company
A trader passes drawings along and adds a margin. Here the animal figure is drawn and built by the same people you are talking to.
Compared with An imported gallery piece
A gallery animal figure arrives as it is. Working direct with the workshop means the size, the surface finish and the base for the position it is going into are decided before anything is cut.
Use Guide
Looking After It Once It Is Installed
- Wash with water and a mild detergent, never a solvent
- Touch up chips early so moisture does not reach the laminate
- For permanent outdoor sites, ask for a UV stable topcoat at the quoting stage
- Lift from the base, not from projecting limbs or ears
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Guides That Apply To This Piece
Frequently Asked Questions
Why fiberglass reinforced resin rather than something cheaper
Fiberglass takes complex modelled shapes that metal cannot be beaten into, and it stays light enough to lift into place without heavy plant. Figurative and cartoon forms are impossible to fabricate economically in sheet metal. A mould makes them repeatable and keeps the weight down for indoor floors and roof terraces.
How is a animal figure this size packed and shipped
A plywood crate is built around the finished geometry with foam on every finished face. Large animal figures are split into sections at joints chosen during design, trial assembled in the workshop, then marked so they go back together in the same order on site.
What do you need from me to quote
The position, the height or overall size you want, and any drawing, render or reference photograph you already have. For the position it is going into a photograph of the space is often enough to start.
What is the lead time
Lead time depends on the size of the animal figure, the surface finish and how much design work it needs, so it is confirmed with the quotation rather than promised in advance. Send the brief and the schedule comes back with the price.
Quote This Piece for Your Project
Send the position, the height you want and any drawing you have. The quotation comes back against your figures, not against a catalogue size.