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It’s been busy in the Redvers’ household recently and painting has been very low on the list of priorities. But, it was my son’s 7th birthday party at the weekend and I got asked to produce a Star Wars cake at short notice. Now while this isn’t exactly the traditional fare of the WAYPN thread, I hope that the use of some (un)painted Imperial Assault miniatures and a few painted marshmallows does at least loosely qualify for a post here, even if very tongue in cheek 🙂 .

This was my first time working with marshmallows in this medium and I used a Sainsbury’s food colouring to get the green effect. This was brushed on and despite the liquid being a little thick, it did pool nicely into the recesses to give a good shading. I thought it brought some colour to an otherwise somewhat monotone landscape.

As you can see from the pictures below, I’ve also used chocolate fingers and Mini Wispas to creat some cover.

I did however have to grab the miniatures off of the cake before the rest of the 7 year old’s took them home in their party bags.