Until the Second World War, the model makers used the same material--paraffin--that Akeley had employed. Later they branched out into plastics, but always used molds taken from nature to assure exact reproductions.
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David Henner (1898-1925) worked at Field Museum from 1917-1925 until his untimely death. He is shown here working on model of Couroupita flowers in 1924.		 © The Field Museum, #b83069c
The Brussels sprout model. Not on exhibit.
However, whatever the material, the work was painstaking. The Brussels sprout models, for example, took three months and a half-dozen different molds to construct.

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