I am trying to make an RKT elephant for the top of a baby shower cake. the elephant his sitting with all four legs kinda flopped in front of him. I already shaped the whole elephant and the body is all one piece (legs were mushed into body to connect it into one) and the head is one piece. I tried the whole buttercream trick and iced the figure with a thin coat of sugarshacks BC i left the fondant rolled thick and but when i covered it it showed EVERY BUMP! 
I am also having trouble getting the leg shape to show through so my elephant doesnt look like a blob!!!! please please helpppp!!!!!
I'm about to do an elephant out of RCT and I'm gonna cover in chocolate ganache, I think that once it hardens a bit i can go over it with warm hands and kinda smooth the chocolate into the cracks to make a more smooth surface. Wish me luck!
I use a micro planer...the long thin kind you grate nutmeg or lemon rind with. I just use it like you'd use a file and go over the RKT figure to get a nice smooth finish. Whatever it shaves off becomes a kind of paste that can be smoothed over the surface to fill in any remaining gaps. It'll firm back up to become a smooth solid surface to put either buttercream or fondant over.
hope it turns out cute! 
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