Armchair Caver: Legs and body base cut out of plywood.
Armchair Caver: Plywood legs with polystyrene for shape. Later covered in tinfoil and then icing.
Armchair Caver: Putting in heaps of Swiss meringue icing inside the dome and joining the dome to the body.
Armchair Caver: Adding some detail to R2.
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Armchair Caver: The finished R2-D2 cake. An ephemeral artwork if there ever was one.
Armchair Caver: Yummy R2-D2 goodness. Chocolate cake and vanilla & orange sponge.
Armchair Caver: Dome removed to reveal the unhealthy amount of icing.
Armchair Caver: R2-D2 cake with working light and sounds