HELP! Okay, I've been out of the cake decorating loop for quite a bit and am starting to slowly get back into things...uhm...with a giant cake to serve 75 
. I'm a little nutty like that....lol. I know I can handle it but am wondering, since I'll have to stack four or (maybe just 3 ??) 1/2 sheet cakes to get the height I need to make a realistic, life size, old school record player...how the heck do I do that without them caving in once I add fondant? I'm thinking of putting two down, then some dowels & two more on top of another cake board resting on the dowels. Does that sound right or does someone have a better idea/method? I'm looking at all the options.
Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here.
Thanks so much, in advance 
Yes, that would work great! It works best if you do it in this order: cake, filling, cake, buttercream (however thick you normally frost them) and then stick your dowels in... then have the cake board, cake, filling, cake.... then just crumb coat the whole thing, pound a sharpened dowel all the way though, and put fondant over it!! Or you can put the sharpened dowel in after you put the fondant on.... whatever 
Thank you so much for your advice! I was stressing a little & have to admit that I'm glad I didn't have to deliver this one. It was SO heavy! Here's a picture of the finished product. I ended up stacking only three 1/2 sheet cakes together to get the height that I needed.
Peachez, that is an awesome cake.....all of your cakes are 
So glad you are back into the cake decorating, your skills were surely missed
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