The former governor of California has commissioned a series of statues of himself to remind the world how he looked in his muscle-bound prime.The 64-year-old has requested the creation of at least three larger-than-life bronze creations which will stand 8ft tall and weigh 580lbs.They will be based on a smaller sculpture created in 1980, the year Schwarzenegger won his seventh Mr Olympia title.The statues all depict him in a classic body-builder pose and have been super-sized to ‘heroic’ scale, which is one-and-a-quarter times life size.The first of them will be shipped to a museum dedicated to Schwarzenegger's life at his childhood home in Thal, Austria.A second will be sent to Columbus, Ohio, where the Schwarzenegger-inspired Arnold Fitness Weekend is held annually.Schwarzenegger himself will keep the third one but he has discussed the possibility of commissioning four more, said Tim Parks, the owner of Oregon-based TW Bronze, which is making the statues. Source
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