How to Make a Typewriter Cupcake Topper

I am a NCIS fan. I have watched the whole series (whole 8 seasons, season 9 on-going) four times, excluding the times I catch the show on Fox and Jack (which is a lot) . I decorate cakes while watching the show which is kind of ironic and contradicting because cakes are all happy, cheery, endorphine enducing cute little things while I watch a show which investigates not so good events every episode. My favorite episode is the first one from season seven because I'm a girl and I'm rooting for Tony and Ziva. And also when Abby found evidence linking Gibbs to Paloma Reynosa. Then there's McGee who loves to his write his novels on a typewriter which got him into trouble because an obsessed fan used the typewriter ribbon to act out the not so good events of his soon to be published second novel. 

That intro took so long. I'm pretty sure you just scrolled down to get down to business. So here it is, a tutorial based on McGee's typewriter.

What we need:

Fondant in black, gray, white

Bronze luster dust

Fondant rolling pin

Small rolling pin or round chopsticks

Fondant smoother

Pasta stick

Knife

Brush

Water and Brush (to glue pieces together)

Here's How:

1. Roll gray fondant into a cylinder.

2. Using the fondant smoother, shape the fondant into a rectangular box.

3. Press the fondant rolling pin into one side.

It should now look like this

4. Cut the excess on the despressed end.

5. Press the higher end of the typewriter using the small rolling pin or chopsticks.

It's coming along nicely now, don't you think?

6. Using popsicle sticks, press it to the curved side to make space for the keys.

7. Roll a small amount fondant thinly and cut out the typewriter keys.

8. Paste the keys into the typewriter.

9. Cut up a rectangle out of the remaining white fondant.

10. Roll out a black fondant into a thin cylinder.

11. Fold the white fondant into the black cylinder and place on the higher end of the typewriter. Paint the typewriter keys with bronze luster dust to give it the "old-school" look.