Finishing Touches for Clay Dolphins

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"GEORGE BENLLOCH: Let's try to--how it looks on the board that's its going to be mounted later. Now, we have to transfer this in here then it's okay. Now, we are going to clean and to center and see if we like it or what. If it looks okay, we are going to first to clean. Clean means all these edges have to be clean. The lines, they have to be clean lines as much as you can. Clay is very tricky. That's why you cannot have this kind of super-duper smooth finish. Normally, the people who make figurines that I was doing it professionally for people like the other one, and figurine makers, we make the model with plastiline that's clay that takes a lot of [SOUNDS LIKE] configuration. And then we make mould. And then we make a piece of plaster that is hard. And then with this piece of plaster, we smooth with sandpaper. And now, with special sanding materials and abrasive materials, abrasive, yeah, till, really, it's really smooth, smooth, smooth. And then, when you have that piece that is a hard piece, totally finished and nice and beautiful and bright, you paint it with enamel or something like that. And then, you make a mould and then you make the final piece. And then from this final piece, you make all the professional moulds that later they use in order to make the series of figurines. Now, we're going to make the eye here. We'll make a hole here. We'll put in like a piece of clay. We'll make like--okay, now we'll clean this up a little bit. And this, we have to detach the two [INDISCERNIBLE]'cause this is one animal that is different than the other one and separate, to be close but not inside. Okay, now we are going to add our fin here. We want to at least reattach that one. This is the fin from the other side. Now, normally, you can see just--we're defining this thing."