Lavender

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Chapter 1

Introduction

I already announced this CJ in my Nexis of Genesis earlier, but this is the actual opening of it.

Lavender region, so called after its first settler, John Lavender and his family.
First I will show you the development of the landscaping before we officially enter the story itself. This region is much smaller than my first CJ, probably even smaller than 20% of it, but behold, this CJ will be different and hopefully as good as Nexis of Genesis.
I will give you a guided tour of every county, once it is finished until the last and then we start from the beginning, the year 1929 after the war of the mountaineers. The story will be on earth in the Northlands, but not as we know it, more like a story, which it is supposed to be. No known places will be mentioned.
I do the modeling all by myself, directly on the terrain, no greyscale and no downloading of an existing map. These two townships or counties as we will call them have been done some time ago, actual the whole region is already finished at the moment, but we will see only one at a time every week or so. This is not supposed to be ready to start officially before November or later this year, but we can show some parts of it meanwhile. Once Nexis of Genesis has reached its end, Lavender will take over.

Here are some pictures, I will show some details next week.

 

 

 

[aasim45 1]

Nice Start to another great City Journal. All the very Best !!!

Why release this CJ so late?

[Fairlane500 8]

This looks awesome so far, I can't wait to see what this CJ turns out to be, but knowing what you are capable of, I'm sure it will be grand.

[Pooty 228]

Well, so far bison, this is looking terrific. Just that small corner is starting to look real nice. I can't wait to see the whole region when its done!

[Bobbo662 23]

Great start to another great city journal!!  Your CJs are always very interesting to read!

[jacqulina 162]

great start,awesome terraforming,look forward to more

[sloppet 3]

The beggining of this City Journal is very nice. It would be better if you would show us the whole region made at the beggining... Looking forward fro the next updates! May this CJ be as good as Nexis of Genesis is (or maybe better...)

 

 

 

 

 

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[MrCinatit 30]

a very nice start, Mr. B. i have always been quite impressed with your terraforming skills, and you are off to a very fine start here. i am looking forward to this one.

[RadioheadFan 1]

Coming from the creator of THE original mega-city journal, and one of the best writers/city builders ST has ever seen, this looks spectacular. I can't wait to see more.

RHF

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Thanks for the encouraging comments and welcome to some older friends and new visitors.

Here are two closer pictures of the first county, far in the upper northeast. Most of the rough terraforming is done, but the fine details are not started yet. I need to be in Mayor Mode for this and sofar I haven' found a name yet....lol

Enjoy these.

 

An overlook of the newly formed county...

 

 

...and a closer look of the canyon.

 

 

[lookinin 2]

Wow, that is some very impressive terraforming! If that's rough, I can't wait to see the details

[kb 0]

GOOD ketchupy work mr. b. !!! let the ketchup be with you!!

[crazyarchitect 7]

nice job on the new journal, I shall look in at this one

[jacqulina 162]

awesome terraforming looks so pretty

[lambsquirter 4]

well i am very sure that this will take off like Nexis of Genesis city journal, so i am going to be following this one ..so far a very good start with the terraforming and am looking forward to when this comes out
will you be having members as citizens in this journal ..lol

[newy2 0]

Nice terraforming work, imprssive start too

[aasim45 1]

Beautiful Terrain!!

[oroen 0]

A much smaller region means even more intricate details perchance??

btw that bright blue water looks really pretty in contrast to the rough wilderness. lookinin is right, if this is rough, I can't wait to see the details!

[tco99 0]

nice work bisonm!! I like this region

[mrbisonm 1,620]

First thanks to you all, I surely hope that you will enjoy this CJ later this year. The reason that the story will start later this year only is simply a matter of not having  enough time to do everything at once. I still have to finish my first CJ *Nexis of Genesis*  and also some BATting is still waiting for me (university set)...and others.

I also would like to release and upload some 30 or so Nexis Lots/BATs later this summer, which a lot of you readers have asked me to do so. These Lots/BATs are from my other CJ.

 

But meanwhile lets all enjoy the start of this region, the terraforming and the making of it.

Here are some pictures from the next county, the one just beside the first one. Again please notice that only the rough has been done, since I have to be in the Mayor mode to do the fine detailed work.

Yes, since this region is a lot smaller (not even the quarter size of Genesis) I will do a lot more details, plus with the experience that I have gathered during my first CJ and also by lurking through the other great CJ's, I will do my best to make this one even more interesting. I will not copy any one's idea though, but jeronij, one of my favourites has greatly inspired me. So did other CJ's.

 

 

This will be the township where small herds of wild horses still roam, as you can see here. Of course we will see a lot of wildlife during its creation until the civilization enters the story. John Lavender, his wife Gloria  and his family of 5 will be the first to arrive to build the empire of the Lavender Valley.

Like I said before, *It was HIS dream, it is THEIR reality and will become OUR Nightmare*....that should be interesting!?

 

 

The next time I will add a third county, which will be just below the first one, in the east. It will contain the canyon river dumping into the Mainriver, named the *Grand Totem River*. It will be the mainstream that goes through the valley collecting the litlle creeks and small river from every side and it will disappear into another region in the west.

I'll be back sometime next week

[flappie 0]

awesome landscape lookin forward to the next update.

[Alakazam 3]

Awesome! Keep it up please! I want to know what's going to happen!

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

Cool, cant wait for another update!!!

[jacqulina 162]

look forward to more

[kb 0]

nice work, very ketchupy!! GOOD KETCHUP HERE BISONM !!

[aasim45 1]

Looking forward for the next county!!

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Chapter 2

 

 

The Making of...

 

Here is County Nr 3, which is situated just south of Nr 1 (Sorry I have not found the names of the cities (counties) yet, so we will continue them as numbers).

Here we have the beginning , or let's say the entrance of the Grand Totem River, which will divide our valley into North and South. The further you go to the east (right) the larger the river will become to finally disappear again into another region. Also here is the junction of the Number 1 river with the Grand Totem.

 

 

A closer look of the county,still some parts of the higher plateau, but also the beginning of the rich lowlands. The Nr 1 river has brought a lot of debris (sand) downstream from the Highland which have gathered at the mouth of the junction and which formed an underwater sandbank, dangerous for bigship navigation.(we will have a good story about this much later). Please remark how deep the river is in the east.

 

 

Where two rivers meet at a foggy point. an even closer look at the sandbanks.

 

 

Ok, now I have to run to catch my plane to Nevada(business), I will be gone 'till tuesday night .Have a nice weekend and try to catch some fresh if you are able to.

 

[Mickebear 2]

You have such a wonderful gift in terraforming, I am glad that you have started a new CJ

Hugs

Mickebear

[theblademaster 1]

Verry nice terraforming indeed,

how do you make water on higher ground

 

Keep the updates comming

[Alakazam 3]

Very good terraforming! Hope to see a update soon!