Red gumpaste - a sticky situation......

You could brush his with CMC powder this will help him to dry out a little faster. it won’t be in the middle of him , but it will help the outside to crust up some .. to make him firm.. just a suggestion .. <3

Here’s a tip for you Julia. I don’t know how big your figure is, but what I do is place my object/figure, whatever fondant/gumpaste on a plate or metal tray, put it in the oven with the rack as close to the top as possible. Of course, depending on the size of your figure, will depend where you place your rack. Turn on the oven light, close the door. Leave in overnight with the oven light on and there’s enough heat from the bulb to dry out your figure. May take 2 days, or more. Obviously if you have to use your oven, you take it out. If you need to place back in the oven, wait for oven to be completely cool before doing this tip again. You want to dry your figure, not melt it with the heat from a recently used oven. Hope this helps. Been using this trick for a long time.,

I’m not sure he will dry as hard as you need it to paint the lines. It has happened to me specially with black, when i made the lego figurines (3 days before the delivery ) the orange and grey ones were hard but the black girls never get hard enough so i needed to use toothpicks because their bodies were so elastic that they fall.
So if you have time to make another spiderman i will try CMC, or you will be struggling with the sticky one, and in a rush to make a new one a few days before.
Hope it helps Ü

How about letting him sit in a fan oven overnight..just fan
can you skewer him without ruining him?

Hi lovely, just my 2 pence worth, Michelle Rea from inspired by Michelle has a recipe up on YouTube for making gumpaste out of fondant. I made the red roses from tahira’s wedding cake from those, using store bought red fondant. Not sticky and dries a treat. Hope you find a way to let this figure dry out in the mean time <3

Thank you so much everyone for replying with your suggestions. I really love the oven ideas from June and Wallace, but my oven must be really rubbish because i cant put on the light without the oven itself being on and it isn’t a fan oven. After I had posted this I stopped worrying so much (a problem shared and all that) and I put him right up on top of my kitchen cupboard using the theory that hot air rises and I got on with some baking. Guess what, he isn’t shiny any more so hopefully he will be ok. I think I will give him a couple of days and reassess the situation. Thank you all so much for being there :-) xXx

Keep him dry, steamfree and put a fan on him xx

Thank you Wallace – I will give that a go. (I really love your name by the way – I have never met a Wallace) :-) x

Hehe x Thank you Julia! ( some ppl think it’s male? ) CakeMummy now calls me lady Wallace, lol…she thought I was a man! Xx

Oh no, I didn’t think you were a man. Wallace Simpson was a lady but Gromit’s friend is a man so I suppose that is where the confusion comes in! :-) x