Help!
I'm confused. 
Can someone tell me or direct me to a link that talks about the differences before all the 3D modeling sugars?
There's fondant and marzipan (I'm good with those, have used them before).
Then, I see gumpaste, sugarpaste, candy clay...what are the differences?
Right now, I'm looking to make ducks and other figurines for a baby shower cake. I don't really want to use fondant, I wanted to experiment with someone new. I will though, if it's the best thing.
Thank you!!!
I believe sugarpaste is another name for fondant.
Candy clay is made with corn syrup and melted chocolate discs (such as Wilton or Mercken's) You can use the white chocolate discs and color them, or use the regular brown chocolate. You can model with it like fondant, making flowers, roses, etc. It stays soft and yummy.
Gumpaste can be made from scratch or with a mix. Gumpaste works much like fondant, in that it is a soft dough, but it dries hard. It's used to make realistic looking flowers or figurines and such. It is safe to consume, but it isn't recommended.
I'm with Traci on this one. I mix gumpaste with fondant for a quick pastillage (I know, there's another one to look up) Gumpaste dries so quick even while you're working with it like for flowers. I like how it looks once it dries though, very thin!! Beautiful for petal work! Mixing it with fondant gives you more play time with it and still gives you thin/dry quick petals.
Amy
If you want to try something different, how about fixodent and fondant. Squirrellycakes recommended it to me and I've had good results so far. You put 1 tsp of powdered fixodent into a wad of fondant (or MMF) the size of a baseball. Use it just like gumpaste. Use a little Crisco if it feels dry. It will harden and has a minty smell too. I though it was a pretty cool idea. I'll try and find that forum.
Here was squirrellycakes response:
adding Fixodent denture powder to fondant, it has to be the powder, got this from a wonderful decorator Sewsweet2.
Just going to copy her post right here in case you are still home.
No excuses....now don't laugh at me. Go to the store and buy "Fixodent" denture adhesive powder. It has to be the powder. I add about a teaspoon of this to a wad of fondant about the size of a baseball. Knead it into the fondant and use like gumpaste. It will get hard for you and you'll have great ribbons. Someone at the RCCA cake show in Omaha, NE, a couple of years ago, told me this hint. They had check it out and it is safe to use. After all, you use the denture adhesive in your mouth. Your gumpaste has the added benefit of being a little minty smelling too.
It's just something different to try! 
If you want to try something different, how about fixodent and fondant. Squirrellycakes recommended it to me and I've had good results so far. You put 1 tsp of powdered fixodent into a wad of fondant (or MMF) the size of a baseball. Use it just like gumpaste. Use a little Crisco if it feels dry. It will harden and has a minty smell too. I though it was a pretty cool idea. I'll try and find that forum.
Okay, I cracked up when I read that. Ihad to read it like three times to make sure I was seeing things correctly. Pretty genius, I'd say. I'm not sure if what I'm doing requires such precision as to use fixodent, but what a great tip!
Thanks.
Sometimes in my area I can't get gumpaste without ordering on line or driving an hour in any direction, so it works in a pinch. When I brought the Fixodent home, my DH asked if there was something I forgot to tell him!LOL !
Wow! Fixodent? I really thought it was a typo at first! Great tips on mixing fondant with gumpaste or fixodent...didn't think to do that to buy me more time before drying out!! Will definitely try that the next go round.
Fixodent...that should be an eyebrow raiser on the grocery list if I send my husband this weekend... 
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