I wanted to make some antelope horns for a sketch in my show Born Annoying. So I put fingertips and rubbed the sides of my head for luck, and this is what I came up with. I think it works pretty good.
Getting the correct shape for the horns took a bit of thinking. I tried cardboard, I tried foam, but they didn’t work. Then I figured on softening and bending taper candles. I could papier mache over the top, then melt the wax. Pictured here I have softened the candled and carfeully wrapped them around a stick as desired.
Here I am multitasking. The hat bit is cling wrap, with layers of tissue paper and craft glue. The horns are well underway, with layers of tissue paper. I also fixed old toilet roll insides to the base for attaching to the hat bit later.
To create realistic ribbing for the horns, I wrapped twine around the horns. Later I continued to apply more layers of tissue paper and watered down craft glue.
As you can see, I also drank coffee. Plus I just noticed all those bottles of booze shaming up the background.
Here are the horns glued and taped to the hat bit, with more and more layers of tissue paper and craft glue to hold them on better.
Not pictured is the bit where I melted the wax out of the horns. I did this in the oven, set on 100 c, with a bent coat hanger holding the horn upright, where the wax could drip into an oven tray and ruin it completely. A small price to pay.
I painted the horms with acrylic paint to look nice and shmick!
Next I bought this fur fabric and begged my partner to stick the fur on top. I think my begging did a pretty good job.
We decided to add the ears too to help soften the devillish vibe.
You’ll have to come to the show to see this prop in action.