Okay, there are a couple of things besides horns I should discuss, like how I hooked up the lighting.  But I promised horns on this post, so that’s what I’m showing.   I’ll do other posts later about the lights and switches etc..

I know it’s been quite some time since I last posted.  That’s because it has taken a long time to put on these horns, particularly in combination with the lights.   Speaking of lights, I took a big risk by adding lights under many of the horns.  They are either going to look great or completely hokey and terrible.   

For the biggest horns I drilled holes in the base. 

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I inserted the lights as I attached the horns.  I used lots of hot glue for that.  

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I added the biggest horns first.

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Then smaller ones.

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 At one point I stopped to add some jowls at the back of the mouth.  

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Then I added more horns.  

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And more carefully placing lights under many of them.

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The trick is learning when to stop adding horns.  I have to say that each horn was carefully and deliberately placed.   A lot of compulsive putting one on and taking it back off went on behind the scenes.     These horns were also not easy to cut.  I used a jig saw with a blade made for plexiglass to cut them.  

Of course I also added horns to the jowls.

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And a few more.

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Here is what it looks like now with the lights off. I must point out again, that 99% of the time this project will be displayed with lights off.     It has to look good without lights.

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I made sure that the lights under the horns were on seperate circuits from the eyes and the mouth.  That way, if I hate the way the lights look under the horns I can just turn leave them off.   Here is the dragon with the lights on only in the mouth and eyes.

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And here is one with all the lights on.

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Not sure how I feel about them yet.  We’ll see after painting how I feel about them.

Either way, you’ll notice that the horns are a little hard to see in the photos.   That’s the downside of icicle-like horns I guess.   But I like them nonetheless.  So far so good.

More later.  Thanks for stopping by.