Need Help Please With 3D Escalade Monster Truck!
Decorating By Linliv46 Updated 27 Dec 2010 , 8:42pm by Linliv46
When I do 3D vehicles, I raise the cake off of the board on styrofoam, smaller than the cake itself, iced black so it doesn't show so much. That way, it looks as if the cake is resting on the tires. I have used the specs from car models to get everything on the car to scale.
I used styrofoam covered in frosting to raise the Jeep Cherokee in my pics. I cut out a cardboard cake board to go under the "chassis" part and used royal icing as glue. I didn't use any internal supports (I was still pretty new and unaware I needed such things) now I'd probably at least use a little bit of support because it was a seriously heavy cake, but the foam worked perfectly, I used big chocolate old fashioned doughnuts for the tires and lots of frosting to hold everything together.
My bottom layer, smaller than the car itself was done in cake, covered in black fondant. I attached to shocks and other hardward from under the car onto the black fondant. The wheels were attached using a dowel, away from the cake a bit so you could see the shocks behind. I'm not sure I'm explaining it right, but maybe the photo will help. http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1813277&sub=1813278
I built a frame for my 3D monster truck cake. I got a long board and cut into two pieces. I drilled holes into (but not through) the bottom of the top piece (that went under the cake) and the top of the bottom piece (that I decorated to look like a road.) I purchased dowels that were the same size as the holes I had drilled. I glued those into the holes. I wired 2 more dowels horizontally across both the front and back set of dowels to hold the giant tires. It sounds kind of confusing. I have a picture in my pictures of a blue monster truck if you want to see what I mean. It worked really well. Let me know if you have more questions!
CakeMommyTX posted a tutorial w/ diagram on this thread:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=662744&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0
[quote="FlourPots"]CakeMommyTX posted a tutorial w/ diagram on this thread:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=662744&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0[/quote
Thank you sooo much!]
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