sculpty even has molds for body parts and faces that work great. Look in the clay section of Michaels or Hobby Lobby.
Just have a play around with it. find a picture of one that you like and practice copying it! I found these on the internet somewhere and saved them as ideas i might use one day!
When you get confident with moulding then you can get crazy and make up your own designs!!
I love making figurines out of fondant!
Good luck with it!!
Sandra
Wow, Sandra, those are great!! I could only dream of doing some that good!
Just have a play around with it. find a picture of one that you like and practice copying it! I found these on the internet somewhere and saved them as ideas i might use one day!
When you get confident with moulding then you can get crazy and make up your own designs!!
I love making figurines out of fondant!
Sandra
FANTASTIC WORK, Sandra! I'm interested in 3-D molding as well. Not nearly as good as Sandra. I recently bought an excellent book at Barnes & Noble," How to Make Clay Characters" by Maureen Carlson. The instructions are great, and she shows you the common mistakes people make when sculpting figures and how to correct them. Also, Sculpy does have people push molds which I purchased on EBAY. There was concern in one of the threads that the sculpy molds may not be food safe, but if you are making toppers, I'm sure that the figures will be placed on a foodsafe stand. Lastly, I have an old people mold kit from Wilton, that I am starting to play around with again. I don't know if Wilton still makes it. The kit comes with instructions. This can get you started and once you get the hang of it, you can do your own creative spin. Hopes this helps!!! 
Wow, those are even better!! The aligators are really neat; how did you do that?!!!
I made my own mould using food safe casting gel. I got a fridge magnet from a $2 shop sterilised it then set it in the casting gel then I pushed the fondant into the mould to get the faces then painted the features with liquid food colouring.
www.bakerysugarcraft.com.au sells the casting gel!
I did the same thing for these faries!
Hi,
To all of you that make these, do you use pre made fondant or make it yourself, and do you add gumtex or gumpaste to it??
Thanks
JoAnn
CAN AYNONE HELP ME WITH MOLDING 3-D IMAGES OUT OF FONDANT. I WANT TO DO WEDDING TOPPERS,ETC.
Start with something simple. I have made a few of these, and i started with the simple ones and then did more involved ones. To do a bride you first make a cone in fondant, it's better if you've added some gumtex, gum trag or tylose for it to dry quicker, put a toothpick at the top of your cone to be able to stick the head on top. Then roll out a piece of gumpaste, very thinly, if you want the dress to be textured, roll it out on a plastic doilie, this will give you some texture. Drape this piece of gumpaste over the cone to form a dress, you can brush some water on the cone first to help the dress adhere to the cone. Then roll out two sausages for the arms, in flesh coloured gumpaste. No need to have hands at this stage, make this simple, you can put flowers to cover where the hands would be to simplify your design. Stick one end of the sausage on each side of the body, and then gather them to the front, you can use a piece of saran wrap to tie them to the body whilst this dries. You can then start to work on the head, make a small ball, in proportion to the body, and just stick it onto the toothpick, allow this to dry for a few hours. Using a sugarcraft gun you can then put hair on and with non toxic pens you can then draw in some eyes and a mouth. Make these simple for your frist try. Then try some more complicated designs. I started with drawn on features and now make all my faces moulded with tools, this way each one is unique. Here are some of the ones i've done in the past.
Cheers
Nati
If you want to try simple stuff first, try any books from Maureen Carlson. They are all about poylmer clay figures--simple to life like samples. Michael's does carry some of her books. I used her "How to Make Clay Characters" to help me with my tea party cake in my photo area. Really great instructions in her book. Just keep inmind though, that gumpaste/fondant does not work quite as easily as clay (clay is softer and much easier to mold details with).
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