Nothing but the frog in me

Using a piece of “rock” from a pet shop – I’ve inverted it because it looks really interesting that way.

By cutting down some of the plastic hexes, I’ve tried to create different heights across the piece. This is for two reasons:

1. it provides more visual interest by not having all the frogs at the same elevation
2. it provides a stronger link to the mechanics of the game itself as mountains are on really thick hexes, forests are a bit thinner and desert are thinnest of all.

This is still very rough and needs a lot of refinement. Once this stage is dry, I’ll then go in with putting to blend into the rocks and to add mountains, forests and desert textures.

Second time trying this post as the website logged me out when I hit submit 🙁

Cosmic Frog is a Boardgame where mile-high space frogs compete to eat the most bits of landscape (mountain, forest, desert) from the shattered remnants of planets, called shards.

In game terms, this translates to moving around and taking cardboard terrain hexagons from a neoprene mat. Players can also fight each other and steal land from each others gullets (frog vomit!).

I want to make a display base that really reflects the feel of the game, with the frogs on hexes in a rocky planetary remnant.

These hexagons come from a game called Penguin Peril that my kids have grown out of. As getting hold of 3D hexagons is pretty tricky, I’m hoping to repurpose these.

The frogs fit on them pretty neatly, so I’m going to now try and find a way to make a rocky piece of planet to incorporate these into.

Entry number 1 will be for the Boardgame category with these six frog miniatures from the board game Cosmic Frog.

I’ll be making a display base for them too, which will be on theme for the game.

These frogs have been cleaned up of minor mould lines and primed in wraithbone spray, ready for painting.