Carly's Zombie Cake: The Zombies!

Carly saw some pics of a super-hero themed wedding cake toppers I made a few years back, and asked about having a zombie cake made for her wedding in May. How could I say no? Carly wants a cake with her and her fiance fighting off some zombies. The hard part will be getting some sort of likeness of the couple, but I got lucky and found a few figures that came pretty close already, and should be great with a little tweaking!

The first thing that needed attention would be the zombies that are attacking the newlyweds. I wanted to cover a few types of zombies, and decided on a circus theme for the zombies (NO CLOWNS!).

The first zombie is the Strong Man. The figure was originally a Black Adam toy from the DC Universe action figure line. I didn't change much for him, just went at his head and chest cavity with the Dremel grinding tool. After gouging out some serious cavities, I went to work sculpting in some skeletal elements to make it look like he had been chewed down to the bone. The paint is a series of flesh tones, washed with a few custom glazes. The first glaze is a muddy brown, then a light Pthalo Green glaze followed. I finished his glazes with a very thin gun-metal grey.


The next zombie is the Acrobat. He was a stock Wrestling figure from the WWE line that I like to chop up for custom stock. Came treatment as the Strong Man, but I left the shavings from his head in place to really make the head wounds look nasty. The finishing touch on him was the Big Googly eye, which his a thin film of yellow glaze to help it look extra diseased.


The last zombie is the Animal Trainer. She started out as a Cover Girl GI Jow action figure. I Dremeled out the front cavity in her stomach, and sculpted in some intestines. The top of her head was hollowed out, and an open brain was sculpted in. I also added some nasty gnaw areas on her legs and arms, so she looks like she was really gone after!

My favorite thing on this zombie is the hair; Nothing looked right, so I unraveled some yarn and super-glued it in place. After setting, I used a couple of different shades of red glaze to make the hair look sticky and matted. The final result is grizzly as hell, and looks great!

Pictures of Carly and Mike are coming later in the week, and the final project should be up soon!

Carly has a great blog that covers just about everything under the Geeky Sun. It's a weekly must-read around here!