Top view..This is a cake I made for my hubby's co-worker's going-away. It is 3 - 8" rounds stacked and then carved to the shape of the hat. The brim is cardboard cut to shape. It is filled and crumb-coated in buttercream and then covered in fondant. The medalion was made out of gumpaste painted with silver luster dust that I made from a handmade mold of the actual medalion. It was all made exactly to scale of my husband's Drill Sgt. Hat. The Drill Sgts. were crazy about it! It was my first attempt at 3D