Chocolate showpiece(s)

So the next big project are our showpieces and our buffet.  We have to make one chocolate showpiece, one pastillage showpiece, and one sugar showpiece.  One has to be larger in size to be placed on our buffet platter, which consists of at minimum 9 types of items with three of each item on the platter.  Originally all my pieces were going to be the same, but now they are not. 

I had originally planned on a film theme, and my chocolate piece was to be a clapboard.  The white chocolate took awhile to get the hang of - it was too runny at first for piping out the letters (which were done ALL backwards).  Once I got the hang of it, it still took a long time.  Chef and everyone told me I had to have the name of the movie on it, so in honor of Cheff Hall, our director, I named the film "Patience Iago", which he A L W A Y S says!  My other two Chef's are also part of the crew too, though I was jumped on by other classmates for various rolls in the move too!  :)  Unfortunately the clapboard did not work out as the chocolate set waaay too quickly in the mold an so there were crazy lines in the whole thing.  

Next, I tried to recreate this Threadless shirt for my chocolate piece.  I think this picture is hilarious and titled "Don't play with matches".

I just love the face on the boy!  He is so excited about eating this delicious marshmallow that he does not see Smokey the Bear even coming up behind him!

The images are always flipped around, so here is my Smokey chocolate piece.  The boy has no face as the details were too small to get in before pouring the chocolate block in, so I decided to paint his face on after it was turned out.  In the end I used my other piece, so the boy doesn't have a face.  Yet.

This image titled "Dark side of the garden" was also to great to pass up, so I made it into my other chocolate piece.

I cut out my lighthouse pastiallage pieces yesterday and they are still drying today.  Hopefully I'll get to put them together tomorrow.  I started my sugar piece today, but it is still looking a bit funky.