Haunted Crypts

The characters penetrate into the former church of the good deity Alasias, now consecrated to the evil god, Gorgien .Are on the trail of one of the six undead-lords in the city of Gadamar ... The Cardinal Madian ... once an high-priest of good, who deny his God with terrible acts .. and now a ghost cleric of Gorgien ..
 
The church is protected...shadows, come out of the walls ..and a skeletal knight and his two servants block the passage to our heroes ...

Defeated opponents, the group finds and activates the mechanism that rotates the wall and access to lower parts of the crypt.
a corridor continues in a larger room ..

A Skull-Guardian materializes ... green flashes from the empty eye holes .. magical glyphs on its surface ...
tough fight ..

 Sinister apparitions appear and then disappear ... ethereal figures of men, women and children .. devoured by the flames ... innocent victims of the horrors that took place within this place..the group is scared..Opened a portal , spectre (priests that were faithful  to Cardinal Midian) arrive into the room ...

 
The last guardian ...a huge giant skeleton (from Reaper Bones) presiding over the hall..his mace is a whole tombstone ( on which the treacherous Cardinal Midian has casted a "widened" silence..no vocal spells in the room )

 











Finally the crypt of the sacrifices ...here, our heroes meet the ghost ..and they destroy it ...

Courtyards inside the Grassburg city

Two different (and countiguos) courtyards connected by an arch.

This building  was made using a tower from ManorHouse Workshop (also the big arch)...
Soon (one month I hope) I will post something (i think) really interesting about this Italian producer.

Dragons Battle (Mountain Village)

After a stop I start to post again....here, a mountain Village..

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Dwarven Forge vs Hirst Arts

The title is only a provocation,
Dwarven Forge (DF) and Hirst Arts (HA) are really two different things, and makes no sense to compare them to determine which is better..it depends on how are you and what you look for.
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Dwarven Forge
Pro:
-it's ready to use (no expense of time)
-aesthetic,robustness and modularity guaranteed to a good level.
Con:
- it's not cheap (expecially outside US)
- you are limited by the existing catalog

Hirst Arts 
Pro:
- much more satisfaction, what you create is unique.
- more flexible, you can build everything you want
- you can amortize costs, producing many stuff (in any case, HA it's not properly cheap) 
Con:
- you need a lot of time...really a lot (this is the biggest problem with HA)
- need a minimum of skill in order to obtain something nice (respect aesthetic and modularity)
- if you use plaster the pieces are not very robust, but if you use resin,HA starts to become quite expensive.
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But this list is not enough to choose..now you have to ask to yourself what you want.. the goal it's to have stuff to play D&D in 3D? or you want primarily an hobby? how much time you have? how much money? you are a creative guy?etc etc

For people like me, that can't decide so easily between DF and HA, maybe looking some  pictures can helps.
I've a friend, "Capochino" (is a nickname..in some forums is knows also as "Starmaster"), near Milano like me, that has built a lot of stuff with HA, and he uses this stuff to play D&D.
In this Post I want to show some of his HA stuff compared with my DF stuff....

Dungeons:

HA

DF

as you can see above, the Capochino's dungeons (see the link on his website) are very modular (are made with Plaster and MDF for the base below the floors)

3 HA dungeons pictures:

3 DF dungeons pictures

Medioeval/Tavern:
HA

DF:

Caverns:
HA:

DF:

Whatever you want...
HA:

DF?
this is a point in favor for HA...DF are really beatiful,...but with DF you are limited by the existing catalog..
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so...What I suggest?
don't choose between HA and DF....
use both...    ;-)
DF + HA

This is the Capochino's website..
http://www.capochino.it/index.php
unfortunately at the moment it's only in italian, but there are a lot of inspiring pictures as in this section

Sewers

These are sewers connected with an underground lake, where there is a cult addressed to a Kraken.  
The kraken was a toy painted red and white (horrible!) now looks better, then there is stuff from Hirst Arts, Thomarillion, Grendel, and some modified piece.
(I  took inspiration for the water and caverns banks from Invincible Overlord)

 

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