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Hướng dẫn phủ fondant làm xe ô tô minicooper

Cập nhật: 19/08/2014 - 11:14 ( Lượt xem: 4.646 )

I woke up one Saturday and wanting to prolong the weekend sleep in I started watching YouTube videos in bed and stumbled across the following video tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvwk7QySkY

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  • I started off with some photos of the Minicooper at different angles, front, side, back, you get the picture. Another tool to help you is also the scale model drawings of the car which you can find online. I printed these out to the scale that I wanted to create so that I can get the right shape and now where to position the wheels and doors. Using the template I created the car base using the top view of the scale model. One tip here is to allow room for the wheels which I didn't do and resulted in a lot of tedious reshaping of the wheel in order to try and fit it to appear “underneath” the car rather than stuck to its side.

     

  • I then created the shape of the car using rice Krispy treats, cutting out a well in the middle of the car and creating grooves in the bonnet. Ideally I should also cut out the wells on the side for the wheels but haven't done so here (this is why I call it an experiment, as it was a bit of trial and error)
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  • The rice krispy model was then covered in royal icing to smoothen out the surface in preparation for the fondant covering.
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  • Rolling out the fondant to approximately 3mm thick, the fondant was draped over the model and I cut out the well using a scalpel as this section would be covered in black fondant. I did two layers as the video suggested. Outline of the car doors and panels were then imprinted using a blunt modeling tool, with reference to the scale models. With the double layering of fondant, I found that this made the car look neater as when you imprint the edges it prevents the royal icing from showing, as you only imprint on the second fondant layer. You have to work quickly in this step as the fondant starts to dry and crack. I live in Singapore and constantly have the air conditioning on so I'm sure that doesn't help as well! I created imprints using a balling took to create a void for the door handle, and using my smallest circular cutter I created the petrol cap/cover on one side.
  • Cutting out wells for the car tyres and then embedded toothpicks to act as wheel spokes.
  • I then hand sculpted the wheels using a medium circular cutter and created the alloy rims by using the fondant smoother tool. If you roll out thin strips of fondant with the fondant smoother, you will be able to get more even lengths of rope to use. Placing these in a star shaped pattern on the wheel and then putting a black circular disc in the middle gives the illusion of alloy wheels. I found a metal pencil tin holder which had a criss cross shape which I used to create the wheel tread pattern.

Unfortunately this was taken using my iPhone, looks great on the tiny screen but terrible when uploaded onto a proper computer. Lesson learnt.
  • Now that the general car shape is taking place, onto the fun part of creating the detail which makes all the difference in making a car cake look like….well, a car. I created the door handles, indicator lights, side mirrors, headlamps, rego plates and exhaust using the various fondant modeling tools and stuck these onto the car with a dab of water using my brush. When making these, the trick to it is being patient and constantly referring to the pictures to make them look as realistic as possible.
  • To create the windscreen I used a small plastic container to cut out the shape making sure that it is in proportion with the rest of the car. At this stage I referred less to the model as I found that the various layers of fondant has changed it's proportions, however I like how it now looked a bit chubby and somewhat cartoonish. (And yes it's cheating to use plastic and if someone can tell me how to make windshield out of sugar that would be awesome!)

  • Modeling with my hands, I created the interior car seats and using the scalloped modeling tool added in detail to give it a slightly retro feel. The steering wheels, seat belts and buckles, gears and speedometer were also hand moulded and painted.
  • To make the soft top, I rolled out black fondant thinly, and positioned it over dowel rods to create that rolled up effect and let it dry overnight before attaching this to the back I'd the car. And that's it!!
Seat belts!
Unfortunately the fondant started drying, so it's cracked a bit.
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