A nearly six-foot tall aluminum sculpture of Elon Musksa国际传媒檚 head built by a Chilliwack artist is now complete.

Metal sculptor Kevin Stone built it for the creators of the Elon Goat Token ($EGT), an Elon Musk-themed cryptocurrency based in Arizona.

The piece is actually part of a larger sculpture that features Musksa国际传媒檚 head on top of a goatsa国际传媒檚 body riding a rocket into space, surrounded by lightning. The sole purpose of the monument is to market the $EGT.

After some recent setbacks, he is expecting the head to finally be shipped this week.

Hesa国际传媒檚 been working on it with his wife Michelle since January. Back at the end of May, he figured he had about a weeksa国际传媒檚 worth of work left to do, but it turned out to be more.

Typically, Kevin works with steel, but the Musk head is completely different. Its base is made out of foam and then it was coated in the same material used to line truck beds. Next, the Stones covered the head in high-heat aluminum tape and then glued aluminum octagons all over it before Kevin welded them together.

Itsa国际传媒檚 the glue that caused problems in the end. Turns out they used too much of it.

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The aluminum was also cracking in some spots when he was using a grinder.

As a result, it took more than a month longer than expected to finish the project. He said it was a difficult piece to work on and sa国际传媒渁n incredible challenge.sa国际传媒�

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Kevin gave a lot of credit to Michelle who did about 40 per cent of the work, which is the most work shesa国际传媒檚 done on one of his projects.

She worked on the nose, ears, back of the neck and hair. She cut the octagons and glued them into place.

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But her biggest accomplishment was Musksa国际传媒檚 ears where there are more than 50 pieces of aluminum in each ear.

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In total, Kevin figures they spent more than 700 hours on Elon Musksa国际传媒檚 head.

Just after the Canada Day long weekend, the piece was finally finished and Kevin said hesa国际传媒檚 happy with the results.

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The head was put in a crate this week and will be shipped to Arizona where the goatsa国际传媒檚 body and the rocket are being built.

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When itsa国际传媒檚 all complete, the 30-foot long Elon goat monument will be towed to Austin, Texas and presented to Musk himself at his place of work, Tesla Inc. According to the cryptocurrency creators, they will be sa国际传媒渄emanding that Elon claims his goat.sa国际传媒�

Kevin has four other projects on the go: a T-rex which will be going to a home in Penticton, a dragon for a private customer in the U.S., an abstract piece heading to Mexico, and an 18-foot eagle for the American Eagle Foundation in Tennessee.