I made this cake for my son Jakob, for his 10th Birthday party , which was over the weekend.(jan 30, 2010) It is based on his favorite XBOX game, "Brutal Legend" ( feat. the Jack Black who portrays Eddie Riggs, the main charecter in the game, as well as many other famous rockers, such as Ozzy Osborne, Rob Halford, Lita Ford, if you know older Metal music, this game will be a trip down memory lane for sure!) it was around 70 lbs and 32" tall. ( chocolate cake w/ chocolate buttercream and coconut fudge filling and chocolate flavored fondarific fondant that I tinted black)) "Eddie Riggs" was made of modeling chocolate mostly, (& gumpaste/fondant ).. & hand painted with edible dyes..the shirt was very hard to piant, and I even got the details like the converse logos on his shoes.. Clementine ( the guitar) is gumpaste / fondant (w/ wires for strings,&a thin wooden dowel for support) the Axe is gumpaste, and has a small wooden dowel. Other elements such as Ormagoddon (the Fire beast- the big silver creature on the front with horns and tusks) and the red flowers ( home made stencil ) that look like little hands making the rock on gesture, the lettering ( again, a home made stencil) that says Happy 10th Birthday Jakob ( my son), and the exhaust pipe tree, are all gumpaste and fondant. The spikes along the bottom two tiers are solid chocolate poured into some molds, then painted with edible luster dust, The chain, on the 3rd tier up, is made out of fondant and pressed from a home-made mold. The flames were cut from gumpaste using a home-made stencil , then airbrushed with edible dye.The corpse pile is rice cereal treat covered in chocolate , then tiny chocolates poured into the shapes of various bones and skulls were pressed on top..though, some chocolates were carved into the right shapes because I didnt have molds for some of the desired shapes.Next, fondant was layed over the top and shaped and formed around the chocolates under it, then airbrushed.The cross and sword are a combination of chocolate and fondant that have been airbrushed.The amps are made of rice cereal treat, covered in fondant and then handpainted ( although I put a Marshall logo , instead of Mitt E. Watt , which is what they have on them in the game )This cake took between 70-80 hours total or me to complete ( right in my home kitchen.)