New Horns for Dawn

Do you remember the horns I had crafted for Dawn? It turns out that they had a glaring space between the hole and the rim. Rot's original horns are extremely thick on the base, and this looked terrible. Thus, I set up to do new horns.

Phone photos again, but I'll show you the final result and the steps below.

Basically, this time I did the same as with Joy (you can see it here). I covered Dawn with a plastic bag, and did the wire base and basic modelling atop the bag. This ensured that I was perfectly covering the horns' space.

I baked it at 120 degrees because my oven is unreliable and tends to go higher, but the horns ended up perfect. As usual, I made them with polymer clay--but I must confess I was too scant with the aluminum foil because these are a bit heavier than I wanted. Perhaps because they flare so much. But in case case, Dawn stands perfectly!

After that, I spent an ungodly amount of time (almost 1.5 hours, to be honest) glueing the new flowers and leaves into the horns, while testing their fit in the dragon's head. I used superglue to glue clay-to-clay, and silicone to keep the horns in place--this way, if I ever want to take the dragon apart to repaint, I can do so.

Silly update, I know, but hopefully you'll see photos of the finalised Dawn quite soon!