Fondant/Gumpaste Figurines...Help!

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Permalink Reply by Sherry Qualls on July 6, 2010 at 2:53pm

Diana, it really depends on how big the figure is...you can see some examples in my photos...everything that I have made were supported with ONLY a single tooth pick....arms, legs, details were all attached with gumpaste glue or water...for larger projects, which I havn't done any, I would think might require a wire frame. but as I said, I just use toothpicks, dipped in gumpaste glue...for standing figures a toothpick in each leg, make sure enough is sticking out to be inserted into a cake....I use styrofoam as a temporary "resting spot. HTH (hope that helps).
Cant help you with the best edible medium for sculpting, maybe modeling chocolate?

Happy Caking
Sherry

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Permalink Reply by diane kilgore on July 8, 2010 at 5:14pm

I've made animals,, and figures like elmo ect. when it comes to people i've noticed they use modeling chocolate, there is a recipe on cc. u-tube has a lot of tutorials, i pretty much make my bottoms flat, and a lot of animals i've made like the dog have the feet for support same as the frog, i've used toothpicks if a head or arm keeps falling off, i also use 50/50 my elmo's but got really big lol, check out the modeling chocolate for faces and bodies , cake boss and ace of cakes us that for people hope this helps

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Permalink Reply by Kandy Shepherd on July 8, 2010 at 8:20pm

Check out You tube. There are alot of tutorials there on faces and figures. I saw a site today and she used a styrofoam base and placed wood skewers in the foam to support the different poses at they were drying. They have to be done in sections to allow them to dry. I use fondant with a little gumtex worked into the fondant and it will dry hard. Hope this helps... The modeling clay section at Michaels has some cute little molds to use. I've also used candy molds. .

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