yep... just twist up some wire and lay on the gumpaste (oh so wanted to say lay on McDuff!)
http://www.miniaturezone.co.uk/ARTICLES/trees/index.htm
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/2475
http://www.google.com/images?q=wire%20armature%20tree&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGLL_en___US359&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1129&bih=717
(this wouldn't be a cake for a cast party of Waiting for Godot would it?
Kinda seems like it would defeat the purpose since its supposed to be edible and its mostly wire. haha. But I guess its what I have to do.
My mom used to, a LONG time ago, make wire trees and then decorate them in gemstones or tiny polished stones.
Anyway....
No its for a cake topper with a dead tree, and wolf and full moon. Not sure what the significance is. Also has to have a garden at the bottom...so...some sort of personal story I guess.
Thanks for the links!
Could you do the main trunk out of rkt and just do the roots gumpaste coming off that? Would you really need wire?
I was thinking of doing this very thing for my Alice I W cake topper that is coming up. I want it to have a darker, Tim Burton feel to it and I was thinking of doing it that way...
I've made one out of wire and then dipped it in RI, it was easier then doing gumpaste and gave it a thinner more dead look.
I've made one out of wire and then dipped it in RI, it was easier then doing gumpaste and gave it a thinner more dead look.
Oh cool...so then you tinted the RI like a dark brown and then shaded it in dusts or airbrush?
Do you happen to have a pic of this effect?
Such a good idea....
I did it in all black because it was for a Coraline cake but it could be done in a light brown and then shaded and colored once the RI dried.
Don't know where the pic is, let me try again....
At the bottom of the page there is a picture of a dead tree I made. I used wire and just thinned some RI and just put some on my hands and put on the tree, let it dry and repeat. Then I airbrushed it.
http://forum.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=582637&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=15
for my swamp swamp cake.... I just made mine with logs of brown fondant with lots of tylose, twisted them and scored them up with a knife and let them dry good and hard. then airbrushed them for spookiness.
Edited to add: it won't let me add the photo, it is in my gallery
Just wanted to thank everyone...I made one out of wire and brushed with royal...then added some little royal "spikes" here and there to fill it out a little...its in my photos, the wolf/garden one.
(The lady specifically wanted a garden with a white picket fence on the bottom tier, and a wolf NOT howling at a moon because he had to have green eyes...it was hard to figure out how to draw that all together but I think it worked out fine.)
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