Drowned Earth Terrain Project Log

I used Army Painter Desert Yellow as the base coat. While it’s a primer paint you will need to do two light coats.

Army Painter has some nice tutorials on their webpage and, surprise!, they featured Mantic terrain in their project. I’ll use a lot of that tutorial here.

The Mantic war zone terrain set has a nice sci feel and is useable as both military and industrial terrain. There are also a number of ruined pieces the are perfect for a post apocalyptic world. (But is The Drowned Earth actually post apocalyptic? More on that later.)

The fastener system Mantic uses is great for test fitting terrain elements and makes on the fly building possible as you generate new ideas but DO NOT rely on them to hold the buildings together. Make sure you test fit everything. The quality is good but some fasteners will have a very tight fit and I had to file down a few pieces.

Once you’re satisfied, glue everything together. I used Testors glue for styrene plastics. This glue will chemically melt the parts together creating a weld.

It takes a while to set so you have some flexibility if you need to change anything. Be sure to have pliers or a wooden dowel handy to push the fasteners  snugly into their respective openings.

Edit:  The minis shown here were painted by Sean Twiddy

Generally speaking the terrain elements for the game are ruins, jungle or swamps, water features  and finally wild stuff I haven’t thought of yet.

The base of the game is going to be a neoprene water mat. I’m going to use Mantic’s war zone terrain for the ruins then scratch build jungle terrain, some caves and water features.