What do you use?

Depends. If the figures are on side I cake, fondant with just enough gumpaste to make it hold. Some figures I use a 50/50 mix. For me, it's rare I use only gumpaste but sometimes I do especially if I need it to dry fast.

I use only gumpaste by itself for flowers cause it dries quickly and can be rolled very thin, for figures I use mostly only fondant (unless I don't have the time for them to dry) you can add some powder to make them dry harder this always seems to work for me, HTH :)

I accidentally left a wad of fondant out about 10 days ago. It's so humid here that when I found it yestarday, it was as moist as when I took it out of the bucket. So, of course, I use pure gumpaste, which actually won't get totally dry here, either. When the design lends itself to pastillage (it's not very scuptable, but it can be cut), I use that. It's the only thing I've found that will actually harden in this climate.

For making people, that arent, standing, etc. i use g/p and fondant, more of the g/p. If i make them standing, i use pastiallage(sp?). It dries very, very hard. hth

I use a 50/50 blend of fondant and gumpaste.  I have made the mistake of making figures out of pure fondant and in my hot/humid climate they don't ever dry or harden.  HTH!

I suppose it depends a lot of where you live, I see here a few ppl cant use just fondant because of the humidity, I have never had this problem, maybe just try with a  few small balls of fondant, 50/50 and just gumpaste it wont cost you much and give you a better idea of long it will take for them to set and exactly how hard they get.

I use fondant with a little tylose in it , I do use flowerpaste however if I have to make clothes that need to drape well . 

 

For example , These figures bodies and faces and hair  are made from fondant with tylose , the clothes are made from flowerpaste. 

 

Hi, Chris,

 

I'm also in Scotland (Edinburgh) and I tend to just use plain fondant for my models.  Make sure to give them a couple of days to dry thoroughly, but you shouldn't have any problems unless it's a really footery design.

 

Hope that helps,

Lizzie
 

Thank you , I enjoy modelling , it is the fiddly things and details I like the most.