Beaver Cake (A Little Help?, Please)
Decorating By kden3980 Updated 10 Aug 2007 , 3:04pm by kden3980
So I got a request to do a beaver cake 
Funny I know. Now I am new to 3D Sculpting, (so maybe keep that to a minimum) however I need some ideas to shape the beaver. I was hoping DOUG (the master planner ) could help me out! Thanks!!!!!! They want chocolate cake (of course) and I was going to do the fur in chocolate frosting, and then fondant accesories (eyes, cheeks, teeth, tail) Just need help with the form part 
Thanks sooooo much for any ideas that come 
Kara
give doug time to get his lazy tooky out of bed in the last two weeks before school starts again! 
first i'm up to near 1am answering questions/drawing templates and then they expect me to bounce out of be bright and early????
ain't happening -- i need my "ugly" sleep!!!!
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foam part?
this whole thing could be edible!
did you see the Ace of Cakes episode a couple weeks back where they made a beaver cake?
really very simple to get the basic shape -- it's all the detailing that takes forever.
and if you've looked at the puppy cake tutorials, same principle -- just building up a different body shape (and oh I so need to go on a diet shape!)
basic shape (will have him flat on the board like Duff did)
body -- stack up sheet and carve until have a big rounded hump that is fat at the butt and narrow at the neck -- sort of like if you took 1/2 half of a wonder mold and married it to a 1/2 sports ball (which if you need a small cake might be the way to go.
head -- just a big ball with the front elongated a bit w/ cake pieces.
front feet -- cake pieces
tail -- just a big ol' slab of fondant or could be a big puddle of BC too.
then have at it w/ BC and fondant (duff's crew did all fondant and used an xacto knife to score the fondant to make the fur.
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i've also attached a sketch from long ago of how to go for a more vertical beaver.
same principal of ball and wondermold shapes stacked and doweled.
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flat would be easier and could add pool of water, sticks in his little paws or mouth, etc.
HTH
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