More Gumpaste

I'm continuing work on the Alice in Wonderland cake due at the end of this week. It is giving me nightmares, not least because it has to be transported quite a way from here and so I'm going to attempt to use a central dowel to hold it all in place. I have never done this before. I have images of hammering it in and the cake exploding.

Anyhew... here is the caterpillar I have been working on today.

I have also finally managed to track down the original cake designer for this cake. Here is the link to her site. 

Edited to add:

here are the playing cards