Copper Basin, AZ - Mohave Desert City!

[seemurray2 21]

Welcome to my cj, I know there are real places called Copper Basin, however this one is not based on any of those.  

By the way, I am using the painted desert mod.

Pic 1.1 - Here you see an overview of the city so far.  The downtown is really going to spread out, and should be my biggest one I have made: edit: downtown looks more like the pic in the header now

Pic 1.2 - Some development near a major highway interchange:

Pic 1.3 - Another shot with some of the colors of the desert:

Hope you enjoy, this is a change for me!

[sEAhAwk fAn121 0]

Wow! That is an awsome city! The highway network is amazing! Kinda reminds me of Pheonix, Arizona! Great job!

[gabetx 1]

Great start! Cant wait to see more!

[dralin321 0]

*leaves eyes wide open* Now this actually looks promising! I'll watch this develop as it goes along.

[Godzillaman 21]

Wow...this looks good. I'll come back for more!

[Cockatoo 2,257]

Wow, look at that highway! I like, looks very nice so far, unique.

[connorc24 2]

Awesome start! I can't wait to see more!

[Geronimo 4]

Nice! The desert with the green city belts inbetween looks fantastic. Nice road layout too, especially the highways. Promising!

[jacqulina 162]

hiya chris how have you been i see you have another cj my friend,a great start too and a good challenge on that terrain,looking great so far and excellent pics.

i hope you had a great christmas

[Silur 3,308]

Hi, seemurray2 ...

Nice City with desert - try more ...

[Mulefisk 15]

Great start! The choice of BATs you've decided to use is awesome. They really work well with the terrain you've chosen. The city looks realistically laid out, if though a little too full of avenues. I also love how your downtown sort of curves upwards towards the library tower. I'm bookmarking this and looking forward to seeing how it develops!

[GMT 389]

I like the start. Mybe a little to many avenues, if you'd ask me, but still a good start.

reminds me of LV with all these empty blocks.

[suplado! 23]

wow -- cool terrain and the overview looks great!! really like the buildings, blends well with each other...and also i like the highways...really creative and unique!!

[anarchy0029 2]

Hey those are some awesome highway networks. Excellent skyline. Beautiful terrain. Keep up the good work.

[football_fever 6]

You've hit gold again, my friend. What ever happened to Cobalt Springs, or whatever your last one was? I LOVED that one. For some reason I was just thinking about some of the dirty references today. The Hershey Highway...string of pearls...dude...I loved that CJ.

This one looks sweet though. The picture with the hotel next to the highway with nothing but desert in its backyard perfectly captures the desert-city-growing-too-fast-disease that Pheonix and Las Vegas are dealing with.

[Schulmanator 5,810]

Cool! A bustling new town.

[penguin007 27]

Nice start cant wait to see more

Will

[bbfan02 23]

Great start! I like the terrain modd. Looking forward to more.

-bbfan02-

[gndrew 0]

Looks cool, kind of like Vegas!

[seemurray2 21]

Before I start with the individual replies, I just want to say how much I appreciate all the great responses.  I wasn't expecting that at all, so thank you.

sEAhAwk fAn121 - Thanks for being so quick to comment, and I am glad you like what I'm doing so far!

gabetx - Thanks!  Here is more, well a little more!

dralin321 - Thank you, I look forward to having you along as it develops.

Godzillaman - You better not be foolin'!  j/k

*****atoo-210893 - Thanks C0CKATOO!  I'm glad you like! 

connorc24 - Thank you 007 times!

Geronimo!!!!!!!  - I think I just jumped!  Thanks, I'm happy that you like the road layout!

jacqulina - Hey Jacky, I've been great!  Yes, this terrain should be more of a challenge than I'm used to, but I wanted to do something different.  I did have a great Christmas, thank you for asking!

Silur -  hmmm, thank you. okay I will!

Mulefisk - Thanks, I'm really glad you like it.  Yes, I always tend to lean a little heavy on the avenues, especially around downtown, but I  will see if I can break that trend.  Thanks for commenting!

GMT - Thanks, yes - there are too many avenues right now, I might have to get rid of some of them.  By the way, I was always wondering what the GMT stands for?

suplado! - thanks, coming from you that is a great compliment - since, you know, you have the coolest cj on here!

anarchy0029 - Thanks alot!  I will try.

football_fever - Hey thanks!  Cobalt Springs went down the ol' toilet ( I obliterated it) don't ask why.  I'm glad you liked the vulgarity of it, don't worry I plan on making this as filthy and raunchy as tastefully as possible, if that is possible!           butt cheeks.

Schulmanator - Thanks for commenting Schulmiester!

penguin007 - Thanks Will!  

bbfan02 - Thanks, I wasn't sure if I liked the terrain at first, but it has grown on me!

gndrew - thanks!  I didn't intend on it looking like Vegas, but if it turns out that way, that's okay I guess!


Here are some more pics for you:

Pic 2.1 - A closer view of downtown during the day:


Pic 2.2 - Downtown at night:


Pic 2.3 - Sandstone Plaza shopping center:


Pic 2.4 - another angle:


Pic 2.5 - The Sears where the "snake incident occurred".  What snake incident you ask?  Lets just say a male employee went out back for a smoke, and while taking a wizz on some rocks found out what a nearby rattlesnake was planning on having for lunch that day.


Pic 2.6 - It's still the same shopping center!


Pic 2.7 - A view of where it fits in with the area:



Thanks for looking, more to come!

[suplado! 23]

wow -- cool pics...really like the highway, those split highway looks awesome as well!! and the downtown looks really great in the night....

[Mike the Mayor 51]

Now that's the way to start a cj. Awesome start and wonderful pics, the buildings look great and the night pic is beautiful.

[lucky7 73]

Great work so far, excellent use of the split highway, very good choice of the desert- theme!

Looking forward to more,

lucky7

[artoxb 0]

I love the terrain mod and the choice of buildings. can't wait for more!

[xlchrisij 0]

Wow, realy cool! Where did you got that baseball stadium?

[seemurray2 21]

Time for another quick update!

suplado! - Thanks, I'm really glad you like my pics.  I'm pretty satisfied with the way downtown is shaping up, and it should look much better as it fills in and begins spreading out to the suburbs. (which I have not made yet!)

Mike the Mayor - thanks, Mike!  Very glad you like it!

lucky7 - Thanks, glad you like the split highway, I wasn't so sure about having that many lanes on part of it, but it turned out okay.

artoxb - Thank you!  The terrain is pretty cool, during the summer months it is more barren, and during the winter months it gets a little greener.

xlchrisij - Thanks, if you search the forums for the North American stadiums thread you will find it!

Now for a few more pics:

Pic 3.1 - Daytime aerial of the city from the North:


Pic 3.2 - Night view:


Pic 3.3 - Here you see Kuhmblazt Park, founded by an early Russian immigrant Vladimir Kuhmblazt:


Pic 3.4 - Another shot of Kuhmblazt Park:


Pic 3.5 - This is a view of the Klusterfuk Highway Exchange, designed by world renouned German engineer Hans Klusterfuk:


Pic 3.6 - Close up of the Klusterfuk:


Pic 3.7 - Red desert sunset:



Thank you for looking at my cj!

[Abc987 3]

Looks wonderful! I'm fascinating by the way you build your cities, and interested to watch them get larger!

[football_fever 6]

Wow, so I was playing Mercenaries last night and when I chose the cluster bomb, for a sec I thought it said the name of your interchange! Weird how that happens...

Kuhmblazt park....wow...awesome

Anyway, seriously, about the city now. It's cool how you can almost leave the empty space behind places like the mall, because empty desert is what's actually there in many cases.

[Cockatoo 2,257]

Originally posted by: seemurray2

C0ckatoo-210893 - Thanks C0CK!  I'm glad you like! 

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Make sure you put an ATOO on the end of that, okay. I don't want that word with an o replaced with a 0 getting censored just like others have been.

[suplado! 23]

wow -- another nice update!! really like the way you make the highway transition and interchanges!! i also like some of the closeup pics of the town...