Kanev and Todorov surfaces in toric 3-folds

In the first part of this article we show for some examples of surfaces of general type in toric 3-folds how to construct minimal and canonical models by toric methods explicitly. The examples we study turn out to be surfaces of general type, namely so called Kanev surfaces and Todorov surfaces. We show how properties of our examples of surfaces could be derived directly from properties of some polytopes and we compute the singularities of their canonical models.