Guitar for a rock star.

Hey there GGG followers,

Listening to: For The Win – We Are The In Crowd

This was a design I made last year. It was my niece’s 7th birthday and the theme nonetheless was Hannah Montana. My sister requested that I make a cake for her and of course, I did! I will be sharing with you my guitar cake.

Now, as I mentioned before I still haven’t learned how to bake my cake from scratch so this cake again is a two layer cake using ready mixed rainbow candy cake mix as the top layer and chocolate as the bottom.

After baking the two layers, I lay one on top of the other using vanilla icing to hold the center.

I then cut the cake into a guitar shape and cut a shallow square at the top of the guitar for the cardboard neck of the guitar which I added at the end. I iced the entire cake so, that I can “paste” on the fondant.

Earlier I had kneaded white and pink fondant together to make a swirl design. If you wish to receive the same effect, just knead your two coloured fondants but only for a short period so, you don’t lose the two shades.

I rolled the fondant out and placed it on top of the cake, the icing – acting as a glue.

I dry brushed edible silver glitter onto the fondant to give it a shine and glimmer effect. Add a light dab each time as you will find that the glitter will just form large clumps of streaks on your fondant.

I rolled out two white rectangle fondant shapes and three knob like shaped fondant pieces, dry brushing them with the silver glitter. I had rolled out yellow fondant and shaped them into stars placing them onto the cake. Using vanilla icing, I outlined the guitar strings and wrote Ana on the guitar. Along the side of the cake, I had iced on silver dragees. You’ve got to be super patient for this part.

I then added my cardboard neck to the cake to give the cake a full guitar look.

And there you have it! Until next time.

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Nocturne Cosplay

Hello Everyone!

Yes! It is true, we will be having a League of Legends Nocturne cosplay along with Shyvana, Riven, Annie, Katarina, and Akali! I convinced my friend to cosplay Nocturne instead of Fiddlesticks. In my opinion Nocturne is more feasible than Fiddlesticks, even though both are physically impossible to have a perfect cosplay.  I thought Nocturne would be more unique, so hopefully it turns out. I only agreed to help him in building it if I could post it on GGG, so here it is!

Click here for Nocturne Final Cosplay result!

Here is the splash page:

Here is the main structure of the knives and shoulders. Obviously things are not perfect because the human body isn’t exactly like Nocturnes. At first I thought the upper body would be fine, but then I realized Nocturne’s head is a lot lower than a humans. He’s kind of a hunchback, so we had to make adjustments:

Here are the cuffs. The “T” shape you see is a support system so that it doesn’t turn on the wrists. We will most likely cover it with the fabric made claw. The hand will be inside the fake hand which will hold the knives up. The three knife layers are separated by two small stacks of foam board.

Here is the structure being spray foamed. We will cut the shape, paper mache and then Fast Mache it.

That is all we have! Believe it or not, we will try to finish this for Anime North (2 weeks)! We will probably make the body out of fabric, maybe chiffon of the bottom to make it flow. It will be hard to pull off, but we can only try. It might not be as the same quality as the others but we’ll see!

May 22nd Upate (Added photo):

Nocturne Final Cosplay result!

Shyvana Cosplay Update:

Sorry I wasn’t able to update my Shyvana Cosplay, I had to apply another layer of Fast Mache to all my pieces. I was also helping with the Nocturne cosplay. I bought the paints and did a test run, It looks okay. I’m trying to improve the look of the armor, hopefully it will be better than okay.

Please click here for Shyvana Final Update

Stay Tuned =).