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3D Darth Vadar

This is the cake that I made for my nephew's 18th birthday. He's a huge Vadar fan...and I'm happy to say that he loved it! The torso is four 8" rounds of cake, carved to the torso shape. The legs, head & shoulders are RCT and the arms I built out of some spare colored fondant since I was having difficulties getting the RCT to stick to the plastic wrapped PVC internal structure. Next time I'll try modeling chocolate! This is only my 20th fondant covered cake...so while he's not perfect, I was pretty happy with it. I did cheat on the light saber, which I had planned to use poured Isomalt to make but ran out of time. The cape I made out of fabric. From head to top of board, Darth stood 36" tall.

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apieceofcake-dolores 4/15/11 at 10:05pm

awesome!! My middle son would LOVE this. He's a huge Vader fan. I better not show him or he will want me to do this for his next birthday

jenn1116 4/15/11 at 10:29pm

Very creative...great job

jenn1116 4/15/11 at 10:29pm

Very creative...great job!

Ursula40 4/15/11 at 10:32pm

Thank you for posting the step by steps as well, awesome cake

cmeventcoordinator 4/16/11 at 12:19am

Awesome, thankl you for the step-by-step

grandmaruth 4/16/11 at 6:16am

wow...thats alot of work!!!!nice :D

Jesses_Girl 4/16/11 at 1:53pm

This is great. What are the little brackets you used to attach the PVC to the board? We have been trying to find something just like that.

josefina20 4/16/11 at 2:23pm

this is just great.. thanks so much for the little tutorial, i am new in cake decorating and one of my bigguest challenge(frear) is to make the internal structure for a 3 d cake., this give me some good ideas. thanks soooooooo much

elainem51 4/16/11 at 2:50pm

OMG this is fantastic......Thank you so much for sharing :D

MSLRAC 4/16/11 at 3:24pm

WOW!!! That is awesome!! Great work and attention to deal!!

Missy_W 4/28/11 at 11:09pm

Thanks everyone! This cake was a lot of fun! I'm pretty new to cake decorating, but always want to push myself to do something a bit different with each cake.

Missy_W 4/28/11 at 11:16pm

Jesses_Girl: not sure which brackets you want info on...the ones that the feet cover that attaches the legs to the very bottom board or the pvc connectors that are connecting the legs to the "pelvis" plate? The brackets that are at the very bottom are galvanized flanges and can be found in the plumbing section. The pvc pieces that you can see from the top of the "pelvis" plate are pvc plugs that are threaded to screw into the pvc threaded connector under the "pelvis" plate.

Missy_W 4/28/11 at 11:17pm

The pvc plugs can be found in the pvc plumbing/sprinkler section of Home Depot or Lowe's.

SAHCaker 6/28/11 at 4:25pm

Awesome! Just awesome! You did a great job of taking pictures of the stages.

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