England! That Green Pleasant Land!

[jerzeslugga 0]

Wow...nice stuff.

I;ve never been to England but from countless pictures,movies, and heck that british vibe I seem to be gettign from lookign at these CJ pics...seems realstic.

[artoxb 0]

this is some seriously great stuff

[omgitsacamera 0]

I love it. Looking forward to more.

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

I've been meaning to visit this CJ for a while, just now got around to it lol.  It's so lovely, and green!  *notices title* Oh... of course   I like the third and second to last pics...I'd love to visit England sometime. 

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

Wow, I sure have been missing out! Callbat, You're an excellent city builder, you've nailed British city building, from the diagonals streets, large train networks, and those details like wide open green fields, and rows of gascooker's excellent homes! Great work, very inspiring. I'll be looking out for more of your updates, Do you have any London recreations planned?

[Callbat 8]

Replies later, but hotdogs, this IS a London recreation!....

well, its ok..at least now that you've commented I know its decent!

thank you

[eumelbear 0]

this is fantastic! i can see myself on those belgrave pictures walking down the streets and picking up my dry cleaning and doing some food shopping...

[miguelkuk 111]

This is great! Obviously being from London I enjoy this immensely.

Will you try to recreate the whole city or just specific areas? There have been a few attempts already but all have stagnated after a while. I don't blame them. It's quite a challenge...

[Callbat 8]

 Small Updade

 Well, I know this is supposed to be a recreation CJ and completely accurate and what not but I have an imagination too! So, I've made this small village on the outskirts of another British City I'm workin on, yeah for those of you who haven't noticed yet Harlesden is

kinda...........dead

Ok heres the pics and some history

ALSO I've made some custom lots but they're all park menu stuff once I figure out how to make growable RCI I'll go LOT crazy

 The village of St. Keyne lies on the outer edges of the *blank* metropolitain area, it is rich in architecture as people have been developing it throught the ages, from Tudor to Victorian St. Keyne has a litle something of all eras.

The village started with this small church, the Church of St. Keyne. it sits on the border of the older part of town and the newer, Victorian part.

This is the older part of town, the street corner seems to have been "invaded" by Victorian architecture in the form of this pub, the Angry Mancunian, which serves some of the best locally made ales and an excellent choice of traditional British food like Bangers and Mash, Steak and Kidney Pie, and of course Fish and Chips, you can also pop in for a good old English Breakfast .

St. Keyne Lagoon is a small little lake which is mostly underground, the part visible overground contatins only about 1/4 of the total volume of water.

The cave entrance:

 

 The lagoon flows more like a river down the hillside, this area gets particularly badly flooded during rains

There is also a big mound on the left side of the picture, it was built by romans or something to stop the barbarians attacking the town.

 

And the lagoon extends down all the way to St. Keyne, flooding it horribly during rains, in fact, its a bit over its banks  right now:

I hope you enjoyed,

 I hope you all had a great Christmas and wishing you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 Comments Appreciated.......

[Mike the Mayor 51]

A lovely little village there, very nice. Great work!

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

Shows how much I know about my British geography I thought these suburbs were around England/Britain, not suburbs of London. I did see the first update of Picadilly Circus, but was simply wondering whether you were going to do, for example, Buckingham Palace Area, Trafalgar Square, The City, etc....

Excellent new update, btw, I like the lagoon pictures.

[suplado! 23]

wow -- cool update!! the small lakes looks reall nice and very detailed...

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

Beautiful lagoon shots, I love the second-to-last as well as the last pic!

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Hope you had a great Christmas too, Callbat. Great terraforming and re-creation on the village. Only one question though: What in the hell is Bangers and Mash?

[Schulmanator 5,812]

Nicely done! Very quaint village.

[Shingure 56]

I like the village. Man , I sure missed alot. You're making me want to visit Britian.

[penguin007 27]

Lovely pics there I love the village can I reqeust a overview of the area around

Will

[Giligone 10]

Great work! That lake is amazing. Especially the part between the 2 farm fields.

[bbfan02 23]

Excellent work with the plopable water and flora! It looks beautiful! I like the city picts too.

-bbfan02-

[Amerikaner 42]

WOW that city looks amazing, I love how well rounded your building skills are, agriculture or city's they all look amazing. Great job my friend, though I am a little sad to see that Harlesden go, but I am more intrigued to see what you come up with.

[Callbat 8]

 UPDATE- A Combintation of Dover and Bath!

 Yep, another fake region by me. I know I REALLY should be working on all of those wonderful requests but errm...I made this in the meantime

It's called Slaptonshire County, it's coastal and very hilly in some places, it's very green and well preserved....and I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed making it! Also in this update, I've experimented with the maxis trees, I know many of you are maxisphobes when it comes to flora, so tell me I it's okay or if I should stop!

First..the white cliffs of Slaptonshire:

A closer view:

Aaaaaaaaand....my first attemp at a mosaic...hey it's not that bad!

And a closer pic of the village

 

   This is the town of Slapton Showers  Callbat's version of Bath

It is named after the county it is located in, and the ancient Roman showers that were discovered here inside of the cliffs that the town sits on.

The town is heavy in Georgian Architecture because of heavy development during the Staurt and most notably the Georgian eras........

Showers Crescent, hey, It's the best I can do with what's out there

Queen's Park with the Chrurch smack in the centre of town.

The cliffside, which offers spectacular views of the countryside for miles around, even on cloudy days you can still see the the waves of the North Sea foaming up against the rocks on shore.

One of the observation points.

Slaptonshire House, where formal affairs take place and the Queen's residence when she is on Holiday here, in the summer the entire town is CRAWLING with tourists and especially this manor.

 Some last pictures that have nothing to do with Slapton Showers ore the White Cliffs

 Its Autumn in Britain!!

Rolling fields of green

 THANK YOU as always for reading, comments are appreciated and replies below

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Replies-

 

The Big Z: Thanks mate!

suplado!: I'm REALLY glad it looks realistic that is on

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

I really like the farming alongside those huge cliffs, very nice. Your first mosaic came out great aswell, Nice job! I don't care too much for the Maxis trees, but don't mind if they stay.

[jacqulina 162]

wow very beautifull work my friend,i love the church.excellent pics too.

happy holidays

[penguin007 27]

Awesome pics as usaul cant wait to see more

Will

[zero7 68]

Excellent updates.  You're really capturing the essence of British villages and small towns in these updates.  

The river that's burst it's banks is a great idea and I also really like the first of the Slaptonshire cliffs.  The irregular fields and the layout of the little village make the shot reminiscent of a Microsoft LIve 'birds-eye' view.

[bbfan02 23]

Wow, the rural areas look fantastic! I love the white cliffs and the open fields!

-bbfan02-

[connorc24 2]

Wow! That looks great! Nice job! Way to go!

[suplado! 23]

wow -- cool rural area and farm fields!! the trees are looking great as well...

[Callbat 8]

Ok I have some worrying news....(well for me anyways)

Recently, I tired DATpacking all of my plugins because I am annoyed by having to wait for SC4 to load and then having it crash so much. It worked but many of my plugins got screwed up including my block Maxis files and I tried it again without compressing the block all maxis files and it still didn't work for some strange reason. I din't play SC4 much after that until one day (like probably the day before yesteday...can't remember)  I started to organize my plugins folder ....so then I played SC4 and look at this!!!!!

It's horrible!!! One of those horrid little Maxis homes popped up! And it only went downhill from there! soon the city was crawling with those horrid maxis things they call buildings.

AND my zebra stripe crossings are missing!!! (as indicated by the second red arrow)

what in the world could be messing with my block maxis files?????

Heres a list of files I recently downloaded, (mostly all removed because of the sudden paranoia)

DATpacker(removed)

BSC No Maxis files(removed, these were downloaded because someone told me they worked with the DATpacker)

callagrafx UK detached houses (removed)

and I also went and re-organised my plugins folder......what mods/downloads could possibly be causing this? somebody help me! If you know a mod that conflicts with the no maxis files

tell me (even if it's not on the above mentioned) Please help! I hate ALL of the Maxis buildings (even for an american city they look rather bad)

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

Usually I'm a "Maxisphobe" but wow... Your pics are great, even with the Maxis flora!  The second pic is especially beautiful - you really have a talent for making nature.  Good job on your first mosaic too.    Aren't they fun?  Keep up the great work, Callbat!