Finn McMissile birthday cake HELP

[OtherwiseKnownAsSheilaTheGreat]

DS1 would like a Finn McMissile (Cars 2) cake for his 4th birthday in June. Not sure where to start? Get a generic car shaped tin and modify it? How do I get the blue grey colour right with icing? Any help gratefully received!

Ooh, there's a mumsnetter who's done great Cars cakes, I'll see if I can find her on a thread. It depends how you feel about carving cake freehand. I guess with a car shaped tin you've got a good base to work from. I don't know what colour you're looking for but you can get pre-coloured blocks of sugarpaste or you can get gel colours which you add to white icing.

Hang on, I'll be back after a bit of research.

It was CotherMuckingFunt, but she doesn't seem to have pictures on her profile, could be she's namechanged - I can't keep track when people do that! Maybe you could pm her?

Thank you! I'll look her up.

ooh - he's quite tricky. Whilst normally not an advocate of shaped tins, I think I would start with something like this (especially if you can hire it), freeze the resulting cake, and then sit down with lots of pictures of Finn and start carving. I think you would need to add rolls of icing for his fins, before you then cover the whole lot in blue-grey fondant. Getting that colour right is just a matter of experimenting, I think, but to get his pearlescent sheen you just need to spray the finished cake with this stuff (note there are probably better/cheaper sources than Amazon, but Amazon is easy to find stuff on and link to..[lazy]