Help With Gum Paste/fondant Figure Modeling!!!
Decorating By ButRCream Updated 5 Jan 2015 , 11:19pm by Emme07
Do you give classes. I would love your tips. [email protected]
Your work is FANTASTIC
I hate to add to the number.... but would you please include me as well, please.
thanks so much!
I would love to get your tips as well FlourPots. Your figure modeling is fantastic! Thanks in advance.
I see you already have a giant list so I'll understand if I don't get a reply... but I'd love to receive your tips as well. Thanks.
I think the weather and humidity have a lot to do with the cracks on the figures.
I live in a very warm and humid weather and have to keep my figures at the same temperature all the time, untill they dry completely otherwise they crack.
I live in heat & humidity too, which I despise (whole other story)...
For me, using MMF + tylose + a microwave is the answer to cracking.
I honestly don't even notice the weather when I model something.
My fondant performs the same any time of the year.
(A member at Flickr posted pics of her pieces literally melting from the humidity...she was using gumpaste & fondant mixed...I've never had that happen either).
Wow! amazing work FlourPots.
I would love to learn from your tips if you don't mind. Thank you
Thank goodness I found this! I am going crazy because I attempted to make a gumpaste figure today. Boy was it a disaster. It was held together by toothpicks and had so many cracks in it.
I would love some tips FlourPots! If you would PM me that would be great!
Thanks!
Flourpots, I feel a tad guilty asking to be added to your list as you're probably flat out PM'ing everyone like crazy. But I remember your pregnant lady thread from some months ago and how amazingly educational it was, so I think you could surely teach me something about modelling. So please, could you send to me also? Thanks very much!
Ok...sent everyone, I think!
zespri...I don't mind, really.
I've learned so much from people willing to share on this site...if I could ever help, I'm happy to.
My concern is that the information isn't as great as everyone was expecting!
Speaking of the prego thread...I almost fell over when Lorraine herself posted, hahaha...I felt like such a wanna-be compared to the master!!
Your work is so smooth and neat FlourPots, that I think we all hope your tips and tricks might hold the secret to it. More than likely you just have natural talent for it, but some of us need all the advice we can get, so it is definitely appreciated, thank you so much for taking the time to help
Yes, I remember when Lorraine popped in and you were speechless... lol! She was impressed, that had to be a boost to the ego!
Flourpots, can you please e-mail me your secrets to great figure modeling at [email protected]? I love your work!
Hi flourpots, wondering if you could include me on the pm?? I have to work on a 'two peas in a pod' theme and i would love any tips you could provide?? Thank you My email is [email protected]
Hi again flourpots, I didn"t realise I could receive PM on here as I'm so new to this!! You can PM me on here as well, thank you
No boost, I swear I wanted to take back everything I had posted. I was embarassed that she saw it!!
(You're very welcome, by the way)
kim & jennykim...I've just sent it.
I am just reading your notes as I am about to try and make a dragon. I just nuked it for the first time due to your advice, how much easier is that!! It was a breeze to knead it to a usable state. A question about that though, you've said:
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* The prepared/colored fondant will definitely have to be microwaved again to get any kind of smooth finish. But I only do that when I'm ready to make the final piece.
Before that, I work with the colored fondant UNmicrowaved, to create a rough example of what I'll be modeling, or sometimes I use other spare fondant if I have it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Do you mean you roughly shape it, then microwave it before putting on the finishing touches? Or are you saying that you do a practice run with a throwaway piece of fondant?
Hi Flourpots,
Can i ask what extruder you are using for the hair? My extruder is looking a bit sorry for its self and isnt the easiest thing to work with!!
sam xx
zespri...
After I roughly shape something, that same piece gets squashed down and microwaved, and I make the piece all over again, with the fondant nice and warm and smooth.
OR
instead of doing it that way, I'll use spare fondant to make the rough example, but switch to the prepared/colored fondant to microwave and make the finished piece..the spare will get squashed down and added back to a spare pile, or thrown out.
Hi Flourpots,
Can i ask what extruder you are using for the hair? My extruder is looking a bit sorry for its self and isnt the easiest thing to work with!!
sam xx
This lady posted lots of great pics that show off the extruder I use:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftygoat/2528925882/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftygoat/2545824566/in/photostream/
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