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26 - Canada Corner & Blue Hill

philforhockey51

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Welcome everyone to Canada Corner and Blue Hill. Two more small tiles in the northeast corner. We'll start off with a quick look at the area in the region and then move through Canada Corner. I could have done so many other things but a lot of these upcoming tiles were some of the first in the region and were quickly laid out so please ignore some of the things like the steep railroad.

02  - Region View (there has been some change in the region since this picture was taken, I'll most likely post an update with the last of these small tile series)

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CANADA CORNER

Mayor Logan Howlett

03 - A look at the tile in the beginning 

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04 - Final Overview

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05 - Some Industry

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08  - Moving in closer

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10 - I'm getting tired of these taxis I need to go find a replacement

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13  - I also need to figure out how to avoid the darkened/abandoned fields or is there a mod to override that?

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15 - I like the rusting car in the back

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BLUE HILL

Shifting into Blue Hill - Mayor Dr. Henry McCoy

19 - Starting off

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20 - Original Layout

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21 - Updated Layout

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23 - Same as Opening Pic

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27 - Freight Train

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That wraps it up for this entry, Hope you enjoyed it. Comments and questions are appreciated.

 

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Yeah, the river looks great.  I like #18 the best -- the farm and the little cliffs behind the houses

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Great argicultural and village and small business development ! MMP´supurb use, love to a picture of the Blue Hill falls. Spiral Kickin Horse pass like tunnel with Takingyouthere diagonal tunnel mod would visualy solf the rail height problem, unfortunaly as it´s a merely a subway entrance there´s no freight traffic posible, rerouting the railway without too much damage to the town in a zig zag fashion wouldn´t be imposible; the local football club be moved elswhere and a  one farm reshaped all it takes, well done !

pls. still like to know something about the rockface modd you used in the last episode !

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@DavidDHetzel  Really? I'll have to look it up.  The naming of my tiles is based on two things typically, what the geography in the tile is and/or who the mayor is. So Canada Corner  came from the mayor James Logan Howlett aka Wolverine a member of the X-Men, he was from Canada and the tile is a well.. a corner tile, two C words that could be the name of a town. I was planning on ending this series of tiles from this corner area with a region pic listing the mayors, if you know comics you might be able to figure out some of the mayors. I used characters' actual names instead of their alias so if you backtrack through my CJ you'll come across some more comic book mayors. Don't bother looking for the alien that wears his underwear on the outside of his tights with the big S on his chest, I dislike him.

@korver Thank You, this was actually one of my first rivers in this region so it was kinda my mmp river test trial, I refined my style for this region later on and only touched this one up a little bit before taking final pictures. It was interesting to come back to this tile and look at what I did before and be able to see what my base mmp design was.

@GoKingsGo Thank you, want to know something funny, #18 is actually the pic from this entry I look at and think "I wish I did this and I wish I did that" but I do like the two parts you mentioned. 

@kschmidt Thank You, I will gladly come back here and share a picture of the waterfalls, I'll probably start up the game this weekend so look for it after that. I agree if I moved some things around I could have found some way to get the rail up the slope but by the time I came back to finish this tile for pictures I didn't want to disrupt too much with the layout.   The rock mod I use is the PEG ROCK MOD II Weathered Granite, link below.

 

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That is an ugly corner, seems it's a turn with a lot of racers going off track, and so tight it must really kill the flow and slow everything down.

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Another good entry, I like the look of picture 15 and most of the diagonals look good, a few though have those diagonal edges. There's ways of combining SFBT's diagonal fillers and diagonal SPAM field 1x1 pieces to make the diagonals look seamless.

Some useful diagonal farm stuff:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3442

This maize set comes with diagonal fields.

 

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2561

This vineyard has diagonal pieces too.

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@Ln X  Thank you, yeah I tried replacing some farms but what I really need is a set of fillers for the farms I'm using, mainly maxis and what I've found on SC4D. Might give Lotting them a try if I ever find the time. Thank you for the link to the vineyard, I did not have that one and didn't know it had diagonals, it will be used. The maize I already have and will be in the next entry I think. The SPAM fields though I've come across them before I'm not a big fan of the way the actual crops look. If I don't find another way around it in the next region I may end up just using them.

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@kschmidt     Here is a picture of Blue Hills Falls, it is still the same as when I originally made it, I have not changed or touched it since then. One of my older styles for a waterfall

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