CBS News Anchor Dan Rather for his wax portrait. And the measurements can be a dose of reality for the subject. We also take a pallet so we can match the skin tone, skin color, lip color. The measurements are then sent to England, where it takes six months to create a wax portrait. First, a model is sculpted in clay.
Artists then make a mold of the clay sculpture and fill it with wax.
And like magic, they create a wax twin. Madame Tussaud's says many celebrities think their wax dummies are a knockout. But you can't please everyone. Museum director Janine Scarpello says George Steinbrenner's family thought his hair shouldn't cover his forehead. Visitors don't waffle when they think a dummy is inaccurate.