bpfink       Fabricating sculptures can certainly have it's advantages when considering costs vs. size abilities, speed of manipulation and variety of media to work in. I work in steels, plastics woods and whatever comes to be a solution to an idea but am first and foremost a wax to cast media sculptor and prefer the positive to negative to positive result steps in casting control but unless it is a semi funded commission I often tend to do a combination of them together.  Let's face it, a nice outdoor bronze piece that is of 7 ft or more is always an economic investment beyond what one can usually create other than by fabricating .  However I don't want to pass up those major pluses of finer detailing, strength and dimensions I can get with cast bronze or even aluminum.  My studio foundry can cast in up to 7 ft tall comfortably  and up to 40 inches in diameter (burnout kiln size limits)and pour up to 300 lb. bronze per melt. Smaller items for economic reasons seem to require still filling the kiln for each burnout so when partially empty I usually pack it up with invested items of my own whims.  That is a great freedom and contributes to my ways of working with less demands on justifying what I do.  If you google me I can send photo details of some (have been doing this since 1961 and over 1250 pieces to date) but don't technically have much luck putting items up on this list.  Here is to your keeping your hands on that wax bucket.  Wax and cast remains my most favorite way of controlling what thoughts come off the ends of my hands.    Bruce Fink    aka  bpfink