The upper picture shows some views of the original
statue's prototype that was built by Ronald Brandt.
(Images by needfullthings.de)
At first only
approximately a handful of mock-up statues were cast from this.
One was used for example to take the picture for the
mail order catalog. The mock-ups have been built from a different,
lighter material than the production statues. Through to the
manufacturing process the mock-ups
are slightly but clearly bigger than the later produced statues
for retail sale. More differences are the colors of
the painting, e.g. the shirt is metallic, the modeling and the paint scheme
are more detailed, also there are some slight differences in
modeling. Below is a picture of one of these mock-ups.
