I am trying to attempt the humidor cake found at charmcitycakes.com for my dad's birthday. I'm still new at airbrushing, but want to acheive the best effect possible. I was thinking of using a wood grain tool and chocolate to get the pattern, then just airbrush over that to give it the wood coloring. Any suggestions?
I did a wood grain on what is supposed to be a desk for my teacher appreciation day cakes. I used chocolate fondant to cover my board then with a paint brush and brown food color made the grains. I used a paper towel to rub the food color, gently, before it dries so there weren't any obvious stoke lines of the brush. After it was all done I polished it with shortening to give it a shine. This is a technique I learned a while back on HGTV to get a wood grain look on old peices of furniture. Of course I changed it a bit with food coloring instead of paint and shortening instead of laquer. LOL HTH I know it isn't exactly what you were asking for but it might help and it is actually very easy to do. This is the cake I mentioned using the technique I described
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=551033
You might want to do a search for this topic. I think we have had several of them. I know i posted one a while ago.
I needed to make a peice of wood being cut by a saw so i took a large piece of white, made it long like a board, then I took the wheel cutter and ran it accross the top of it several times, making sure to woble it and make uneven lines.
I then took brown paste and painted it into the lines I had just made and then wiped off the rest. i went back over the entire piece.
it is in my pictures if you want to see it. it is the saw cake.
I'm not sure the cake you are talking about - but I have made woodgrain for this picture:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=694093
cover a board with light brown fondant. Use a toothpick to make the wood slats and the woodgrain pattern. Use the round end of a tip #12 for nails on the end of each wood slat. Paint the whole thing with a mixture of brown food color and vanilla (this is what really gives it that uneven color for the wood look). Paint the nail heads with luster dust. I hope this helps you! Good luck!!
They have woodgrain cocoa transfer sheets. You could "wrap" your cake in chocolate.
http://www.countrykitchensa.com/catalog/product.aspx?T=2&productId=631659
I am trying to attempt the humidor cake found at charmcitycakes.com for my dad's birthday. I'm still new at airbrushing, but want to acheive the best effect possible. I was thinking of using a wood grain tool and chocolate to get the pattern, then just airbrush over that to give it the wood coloring. Any suggestions?
I did one for this cake using an impression mat for wood grain:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_661583.html
Then I scored it and painted it with a mix of cocoa and terra cotta and yellow (I think, haha) and then painted the nail heads with luster dust.
btw.. I just ordered a roller that has wood grain, but am disappointed in it, as it has seams that are very distracting. I am going to try to file them down. 
Contact CakeRN .... she did this cake: http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=600673
I saw this cake in person. The photo doesn't do it justice. The bucket looked like REAL wood. She can probably give you some good tips.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I will take everything into consideration and post a pic when I'm done!
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