Also, you may wish to get rid of the extra faces. It's much better to use planes instead of cubes. First set the extra faces to invisible and then "crunch" them together through vertex/line edit. For translucency, I'd recommend around 20% to 40%, and try to make them packed close together so the effect appears realistic. The translucency will depend on how much of the fogginess you want and on how packed together the faces are.