Colour and hair artist Sue Day has added the finishing touches to a waxwork model of Sir Winston Churchill.

She is part of a team preparing for the opening of a major new exhibition on ‘the greatest Briton’, which opens at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock next month.

The life-size figure will take pride of place in the new exhibition dedicated to Churchill’s lifelong association with his beloved birthplace.

Created by internationally-renowned sculptor Jethro Crabb, the bust was initially carved out of clay, which was covered in silicone to make a mould, then filled with a special formula of wax.

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The final stage involved Ms Day painstakingly inserting individual hair follicles into the scalp and then carefully colour matching the face, before the life-size figure is assembled and clothed.

Artist Sue Day works on the waxwork model of Sir Winston Churchill Picture: Blenheim Palace

Artist Sue Day works on the waxwork model of Sir Winston Churchill Picture: Blenheim Palace

In order to make the completed figure as realistic as possible, designers contacted Churchill’s original tailor, hat, glasses and shoemakers to provide bespoke authentic clothing and accessories, made to his own measurements.

As well as being his birthplace, Blenheim is where where he proposed to his beloved wife.

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The wax figure is one of a series of new features set to open at the palace next month as part of a £1.9m investment programme, featuring the stable block and an art-themed restaurant and café.