I would not use plaster, as for more info I will have to think on this, I wish I had the opportunity, you are very lucky. It is first of all going to take a lot of chocolate.... sounds like a blast. I will have to check on what to use as a molding for your body, I will post as soon as I can about it though. let me know what ideas you hear though, it is most interesting.

How to keep the chocolate from blooming? When dealing with that amount of chocolate, and the time it's going to take to mold it, you're going to be in a bind, i think.

But i would suggest, since the cast will be split in to, that you do it in layers.

When i work with large peices (1-10 lb of chocolate... dang you took on a huge project), that's how i do it. I temper the chocolate in batches, then fill & dump, fill and dump just like a smaller mold.


You really are going to need a tempering machine, i would say. if you have that, it won't be any problem. I just saw a christmas show with a chocolate house, chocolate human sized santa, etc. If the chocolate is tempered when it's poured, it shouldn't bloom.