Susan's Horn...
Posted: Aug 31, 2011 3:48 pm
Hello all! Just stopping by for two reasons - one, I want opinions, and two, to share some stuff with you lot! Recently I decided that I would like to be Susan Pevensie for Halloween... or so my mum thinks - I just want to make Narnia props ^.^ Anyway. A few matters, really:
1. I wanted an opinion: I have an option to either make the green archery dress myself, or my grandmother offered to make the coronation gown. Opinions? (Keep in mind that I would be carrying the horn and quiver - I'm not so sure it would go with the coronation gown).
2. I was wondering - is anyone adept with crochet? I know how to, but my question is: I'm attempting to make a half-circle cloak, and I'm not sure how to do so. Someone online suggested to chain 1 and 1/2 the circumference (well, the half circumference, since it's half circle), crochet normally a second row, and then on the third, skip every 3rd stitch. From then on continue normally - my concern is, will this work? I'm worried that it won't...
3. Since Noble Collection no longer makes the horn, I made one myself out of Sculpey and wire. (http://www.deviantart.com/download/254290742/susan__s_horn_by_minteey-d47ebzq.png)
I made it by:
~ First, I made little ringlets out of the wire, then filled the inside with the clay. I connected them all, and baked it, so I could do the outside.
~ After it cooled, I did the outside and the designs - you need to be patient (it took me 3 days for this step alone!) Then, bake it again.
~ I then put on the clasp skeletons and the mouthpiece skeletons, and baked that.
~ Then, I made the designs on the clasps and on the mouthpiece and baked it for a final time.
The reason I baked it so many times was so that (1) it was sturdy to work with, (2) if I had made fancy clasps/mouthpieces, they likely would have fallen off when I tried to wear it. As a matter of fact, I tried a skeleton to make sure it was sturdy, and it fell off - I had to sand off the clay, and start again!
~ Paint it - I used an ivory/white paint mix, gold paint marker, shimmer-gold paint (to touch up the underside of the clasps) and for the mouthpiece, which is not seen here, I mixed white, blue and purple (very little, though) and instead of fully mixing, I made them somewhat marbled, so you get a pearly effect.
~ The designs are all hand made and carved in except for the teeth and eyes, which I added little lumps of clay for (the eyeball was carved in, though). I used some sort of clay tool - though only one. I suppose you could also use a blunt knife, since that was more or less what I did.
~ The little stitch pattern was a little complicated. First, I made a block of clay, and carved in the design (make sure it's the opposite - you want a hole for the little block part, and a hole for the lining). Bake it, and imprint it on the clay - it makes the block part out and the lining out. Just be careful that the lining is in line all around, or it looks bad.
That's about all I have to say - any questions, feel free to ask. The horn makes some sound, and after experimenting I find that instead of trying to play it as you would a trumpet, you should just mimic the movie's sound and the hollow of the horn will magnify it.
Also, I'm off to go make Susan's Bow and Arrows, I'll have some tips on those shortly.
~Mintey
1. I wanted an opinion: I have an option to either make the green archery dress myself, or my grandmother offered to make the coronation gown. Opinions? (Keep in mind that I would be carrying the horn and quiver - I'm not so sure it would go with the coronation gown).
2. I was wondering - is anyone adept with crochet? I know how to, but my question is: I'm attempting to make a half-circle cloak, and I'm not sure how to do so. Someone online suggested to chain 1 and 1/2 the circumference (well, the half circumference, since it's half circle), crochet normally a second row, and then on the third, skip every 3rd stitch. From then on continue normally - my concern is, will this work? I'm worried that it won't...
3. Since Noble Collection no longer makes the horn, I made one myself out of Sculpey and wire. (http://www.deviantart.com/download/254290742/susan__s_horn_by_minteey-d47ebzq.png)
I made it by:
~ First, I made little ringlets out of the wire, then filled the inside with the clay. I connected them all, and baked it, so I could do the outside.
~ After it cooled, I did the outside and the designs - you need to be patient (it took me 3 days for this step alone!) Then, bake it again.
~ I then put on the clasp skeletons and the mouthpiece skeletons, and baked that.
~ Then, I made the designs on the clasps and on the mouthpiece and baked it for a final time.
The reason I baked it so many times was so that (1) it was sturdy to work with, (2) if I had made fancy clasps/mouthpieces, they likely would have fallen off when I tried to wear it. As a matter of fact, I tried a skeleton to make sure it was sturdy, and it fell off - I had to sand off the clay, and start again!
~ Paint it - I used an ivory/white paint mix, gold paint marker, shimmer-gold paint (to touch up the underside of the clasps) and for the mouthpiece, which is not seen here, I mixed white, blue and purple (very little, though) and instead of fully mixing, I made them somewhat marbled, so you get a pearly effect.
~ The designs are all hand made and carved in except for the teeth and eyes, which I added little lumps of clay for (the eyeball was carved in, though). I used some sort of clay tool - though only one. I suppose you could also use a blunt knife, since that was more or less what I did.
~ The little stitch pattern was a little complicated. First, I made a block of clay, and carved in the design (make sure it's the opposite - you want a hole for the little block part, and a hole for the lining). Bake it, and imprint it on the clay - it makes the block part out and the lining out. Just be careful that the lining is in line all around, or it looks bad.
That's about all I have to say - any questions, feel free to ask. The horn makes some sound, and after experimenting I find that instead of trying to play it as you would a trumpet, you should just mimic the movie's sound and the hollow of the horn will magnify it.
Also, I'm off to go make Susan's Bow and Arrows, I'll have some tips on those shortly.
~Mintey