Watch artists turn a lump of clay and some yak hair into Chewbacca

Madame Tussauds recently opened its Star Wars exhibition in London. You can learn all about the process of creating these impressive wax statues, which includes hand inserting each hair individually and lots and lots of very careful painting, in the video above.

The work, as always, is impressively life-like. Poor wax Han Solo: Doomed to a lifetime of selfie stick photos.