Factum has rendered facsimiles in everything from plaster to bronze.
Generally, apprentice schemes are regarded as sticking plaster to hide deeper problems.
The technician is preparing the plaster to take the mould of his legs.
A gel-based plaster to protect against further rubbing is an easily-overlooked necessity.
Wall surfaces range from the smoothness of glass and plaster to the roughness of brick, stone, or rough-sawn lumber.
The Palenque builders used plaster to obtain a smooth finish, unlike the usual Mayan tooled-limestone construction.
The vast majority of the time, however, we spent applying finish plaster to the interior walls and ceiling.
When I was chairman of the BBC we were forever sanctioning bills for sticking plaster to keep this thing going.
"Unfortunately what we keep getting is a sticking plaster to cover up a set of disastrous figures," he said.
I suspect he plans to use this money as a sticking plaster to cover forthcoming, politically damaging cuts in policing".
At some point he seems to have unceremoniously stuck it in a lump of wet plaster to hold it upright.
