Airbrushing Advice for Silver colour

I have never tried to airbrush silver on a cake. I have only used petal dust in vodka to paint on silver. But anyway I think I would tint the fondant a very very light grey to give the silver a base. Curious to see how others would do this.

Thanks for your reply Prima Cakes Plus…yes I think, on trying it out on little pieces of fondant that it is probably the way to go.! Thank you.

I tint my fondant first…. I have not put silver put through my airbrush either… although i recently purchase gold airbrush colour (have not tried it yet). I also mix silver with vodka and paint on….

Thanks for your input Julez, I only recently got my airbrush & although I have practised on paper etc., I must admit I am so scared of doing an actual cake tier…(the whole lot would have to come off if I stuffed up, ganache & all probably, so keep putting off airbrushing an actual tier :(

Looking through some other info it does seem that quite a lot of people do airbrush straight onto white, but maybe just a little hint of colour on the fondant first is the best way to go…your cakes are beautiful btw…just checked some out…oh to have half your talent!!

I found the main thing, was not to try and put too much on at once… you risk “beading” or “running”… although I have heard the dinky doodle colours go on dry… (I haven’t tried them). Try multiple thin coats. Good luck!…look forward to seeing your cakes!

Keep the fondant white and then airbrush it silver. I’ve done it before, it works.

I airbrush directly on white paste and it works perfectly. But I guess it depends on the colours you are using. If you use petal dust dissolved in vodka probably would be better to have a grey base.

I have heard others have coloured their fondant grey before airbrushing it silver…yes. but it goes on white also. I have not done this yet though. Metallics is something I have yet to try :-)

Thank you all you lovely ladies for taking the time to reply. Well after doing a few little experiments on this, it seems that actually I did get a better result/silver colour spraying directly onto the white!! Would you believe though, after all this, that my airbrush even though only a couple of months old & barely used…stopped working:( I may end up having to use the silver sheen colour with a a paintbrush…very disappointing (do you add vodka to airbrush colours when hand painting with them?) However, for future reference, I would definitely now say to spray colours directly onto white fondant. Thanks again for your input guys, very much appreciated.