Hong Kong

[Sky Guy 163]

Wow, This hits me in the face of how big Hong Kong is. Great job of recreating it!

[gabry85 2]

Wow, it seems the water effect is the last ST trend! Great pix!

[rct3twins 14]

Cool! Is the realistic water photoshopped?

PLEEEZE REALEASE YOUR HONG KONG MIDRISE BATS!

[Cleaner475 150]

another beauitful update awesome night pics and more great modern buildings!

btw what water mod are you using?

Richard

[connorc24 2]

Very Cool! Nice Job!

[tankmank 853]

wow it all looks sooo real i absolutely love it really its amazing

[Cockatoo 2,262]

Well, here's the update! Just some more pictures that I didn't post in the last update.

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And here's my panorama!

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Oh yea and here we go, My stupidly long and neglected list of replies:

Before I start I have a collective reply for all of you…

Members of Simtropolis:  No, I will not post a region shot, stop asking! You know I don’t post them in my CJ’s because my regions look like a patchwork quilt because of my ever changing terrain and water mods.

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Tankmank:  Thanks, It really is a weird site seeing rice paddies in a growing sea of hi-rises.

Deever:  Haha, yea it’s a big job. Thanks for your nice comments man!

RV1428:  Well, thankyou! Happy 100th!

Saltandsauce:  I didn’t know I had trams in my CJ. If you mean the trains, they are very similar to the KCR/ MTR trains on Hong Kong.

Penguin007:  Thanks, glad you like the area, although I wouldn’t call it rural, lol. Thanks for your comment!

Hijodecordoba:  Haha, 2.5 GB at the moment.

Rct3twins:  Oaky, hope you like the mod.

Lucky7:  Wow, thanks, it’s great to hear comments like that. Thanks for stopping by!

Garby85:  Wow, thanks! Glad you liked the photo effects.

Mike the Mayor:  Well, ha, that’s good to hear! I actually had to base a lot of it just from what I can remember when I was last in Tai Po last year. Thanks for the comment!

AutumnWindz:  Thanks. I’ve been working on this project for almost 6 months now.

Flame1369:  Well, yea. It is just a random collection of skyscrapers that I put a lot of effort into… Thanks for your comment!

[Shanna 1]

Simply fantastic! I'll add your cj in my favorites! Absolutely detailed and realistic buildings, wow wonderful job! I love the water effect: compliments!

[hijodecordoba 74]

the last picture and the panorama have left me overwhelmed. (can i say that? ) your photoshopping is a great addition to your city building skills.

absolut realistic - awesome

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[dadyrghluv 8]

the attention to detail is awsome. u even have the cars going in the right direction. i wish i was half as good.

[jacqulina 162]

awesome work your doing my friend,the pics are amazing

[penguin007 27]

Great update the water effect looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Will

[rct3twins 14]

Woah! What a panorama! And it's pretty amazing that you didn't use any maxis buildings (or i didn't recognize them) as opposed to Ellis Valley.

As for the replies, YOU MISSED MY FIRST COMMENT! ITS THE FIRST ONE ON PAGE 11! Oh well.

[bbfan02 23]

Great update! I like the sun effect on the water. It looks cool. The buildings look good too.

-bbfan02-

[suplado! 23]

cool pics...amazing overview!! really like it!!!

[ky72x 13]

Wow, that update was amazing! Great use of the diagonal and W2W buildings, especially the spot where you used them together. Although I think elevated highway would look better, the fact that the textures under the ground highway match the ones on the surrounding streets, it looks very urban. That last shot looks beautiful, it's one of the best in-game shots I've seen so far! Really.

- Kyle

[dadyrghluv 8]

BTW, i just wanted to let u know, i have voted for this CJ for best use of custom content category. by far one of the top 5 CJ's of the year, and it just keeps getting better and better.

[djlee1999 3]

By far one of the best CJ's i've seen on here! This is what realism is all about!

[Skram 4]

nice work, The photoshopped water looks great, Keep it up!

[gabry85 2]

Great work! I'm stunned by the last image especially!

[Maxis_Mary 0]

Hi Coclatoo-210893  I am new here. awesome building. keep it work. brilliant.

[suomi2005 52]

Again another nice update everything is so realistic, that panorama is incredible and I know I commented the waterfront last time but that it's really really great.

[elle_driver 2]

I'm almost speechless! What an amazing CJ! Looking forward to more updates!

[HONG KONG 74]

My first comment here ,..... Tsss.... me just watch ... ohhh  ... Simply awesome this CJ...

[Andronicus22 1]

looking forward to more my friend.

[Jurianu 0]

Wow an incredible cj of a wunderful city NICE WORK!, by the way where did you get the bat of the Sompo Japan building?

[digiz 0]

amazing job! any chance that you can share this with the rest of us! we would love to have this!

[Cockatoo 2,262]

SPECIAL NOTICE:

Before I start with the update, I’d like to thank all of you, my readers for taking the time to nominate me for the ’07 Trixie awards. It really does mean a lot to me to receive 6 nominations in just the CJ section alone for Best City Journal, Most Aesthetically Pleasing City, Awe Inspiring City, Most Realistic City Journal, Best Use of Custom Content in a CJ and Best Use of Added Graphics in a CJ. Unfortunately, Hong Kong didn’t win any of these awards but if you look at the CJ’s that did win you’d know why so I’m still over the moon to even be considered to win. Maybe next year eh?

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Anyways, on with the update. Over the past week I’ve been constructing the area around Hong Kong’s old and now un-used airport, Kai Tak. It was officially closed when Chap Lap Kok took over as the main airport in the 1990’s because Kai Tak only had one runway and would be well over capacity as Hong Kong continued to grow. Now days, It’s just a large construction site with a little of the old airport remaining. There are plans to build over the site but that hasn’t happened yet. One interesting feature of this airport was that the runway was built on a peninsular that stretched out into Hong Kong harbor, so that overgrown thing in my re-creation is the past site of the runway. Here’s the update:

If you haven’t figured it out yet, click the pictures, their bigger than normal…

Thanks, replies will be in the next update.

[suplado! 23]

amazing pics...really like the color effects on each pics! also, i like the hk bats used...really awesome! one thing is about the airport? there are construction on its way...

[connorc24 2]

Amazing! Nice job! I love the airport!