Nothing's sacred, not Oprah's cracked lips nor Gloria Estefan's remarkably red knuckles. Eye colors are matched. Teeth impressions are made. We're trying to get the reality. To supplement the photos and measurements, the research department provides background material.
Swales studies the duchess's mouth.
This is a cross between science and art. If you think of it as a lump of clay, you're lost. He dips a brush into a bowl of wet, creamy plaster and delicately flicks the stuff over Woody's face, applying coat after coat. When it hardens, he'll discard the clay sculpture and bind the interlocking pieces of the mold with rope to hold them together. He pours the hot wax through a long tin funnel into the mold.