Kitbashing a Titan Toad

With the rules written for the Titan Toad variant of Missile Toads, it was time to start bashing the first Titan. To get started, I cast up a copy of Trent from Miscast’s Garbo toad. I made this mold in late spring and had casted a few at this point, but not one for myself.  Lately, I have been casting Miniatures in Smooth on liquid plastic and it has really improved my casts. I highly recommend this material if you’re starting out with molding and casting with no equipment.

The main inspiration for my Titan Toad is Howl’s Moving Castle from the studio Ghibli film. I was looking to create a ramshackle random structure on the back of the toad that was lived in and rusted but also a tank.

The Foundation was built with some resign casts from Ramshackle Games. A while back I bought a tank kit and now I have an excuse to use the extra parts. Additionally, I added some random plastic bits that I assume are from Games Workshop. I also added this cheap pastic gas tank from a dollar store toy. Make sure to give it a good sanding to ensure parts will glue to it and paint won't flake off. 

Then like I always seem to do, I got into the grove of kitbashing and didn't document a huge amount of steps. But I will do my best to explain it. After building the base of the structure, I started to add to the sides of the toad. I was playing with the silhouette alot during this stage. The tank and toad needed to mesh together with one not out weighing the other. Luckily I had plenty of random sci-fi weapons to bulk out the build. The barrel of the large cannon is a pen with a cheap toys built on top to fill out the shape and add detail. Also added barrels for eyes since it felt silly to me and the toad had an extra eye anyway so it has no problem seeing.

After a few hours of kitbashing, it was done! Not only because I had a self imposed deadline to make sure it was ready for play testing or anything... But the rule set worked and it will end up in the final zine!