Entry 72 -- Cindersville complete after 2 1/2 years in the making
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Entry 72: Cindersville Completed!
First of all thank you for the comments from the last entry and all the comments over the years. Now this project has been ongoing since the Spring of 2018, it started with new buildings and the idea of a highway cutting through a city built upon the joining of two valleys. After delays, being stumped as to how to proceed and a mega push this Summer and Autumn I have finally completed Cindersville.
So sit back and enjoy this large entry as first I show the key locations of Cindersville and then second dedicate the rest of this entry to the northern part of Cindersville's City Centre.
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The two valleys are Cinders Valley (the largest one and the flattest), it runs from the south and then bends westwards. The second valley is Moreley which gently slopes downwards from the east and connects with Cinders Valley. The city centre is the joining of the two valleys.
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The city centre is divided in two by the M6 highway. Above is the southern half of the city centre.
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South of the city centre is Chumley.
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West of the city centre.
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East of the city centre.
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East Chumley which is built against a eastern slope.
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The centre of Hefnall which is built upon the Moreley Valley. Hefnall gets it's name from a nearby local mountain (Mount Hefnall).
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The northwest of Hefnall which is built against the southern slopes of Mount Hefnall.
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The southwest of Hefnall is built on the northern slopes of Paxton's Mound- the round-shaped hill in the south-east of Cindersville.
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Mount Hefnall, one of three tall mountains that dominate the Cindersville skyline and located in the northeast. The other two mountains are: Pillar (in the northwest) and Rock of Heaven (southwest).
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Hefnall Forest begins on the northern slopes of Mount Hefnall and the corresponding mountain ridges. This is the western part.
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The eastern part of Hefnall Forest.
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Paxton's Mound. While smaller than Mount Hefnall, Pillar and Rock of Heaven, large parts of Cindersville are built around it. Plus Paxton's Mound is a famous tourist attraction too.
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Even the valleys have valleys. South of Paxton Mound is the area of Cindersville known as Paxton (built in the south-east part of the city).
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Paxton extends around Paxton Mound, here are the western and northern areas which border Chumley and the city centre.
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North of the city centre meets immediately with the hilly and mountainous landscape dominated by Pillar and Mount Hefnall. Between these two mountains is a minor valley cutting between the two, this is known as Maular Valley. This A-road is actually a mountain pass which ends at the very tip of the northern half of the city centre.
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At the top of Maular Valley is the village of Kingsley, immediately next to Kingsley is the smaller mountain known as Pratchit's Top. Now Pratchit's Top is part of a mountain range, Temson Raise, which includes Pillar, Pratchit's Top marks the eastern-most point of this mountain range.
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The southern half of Temson Raise (in the right half of the picture).
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The northern half of Temson Raise, with Pillar in the bottom left of this picture.
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This part of Cindersville is known as Awnsale. This suburban area is squeezed by the northern slopes of the Rock of Heaven (bottom part of the picture) and the southern slopes of Temson Raise and to some extent Pillar. The M6 highway cuts straight through Awnsale.
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This is East Awnsale and is the first suburban area west of the city centre.
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Between Chumley and the village of Derton (just seen in the picture's top) there is the Honister Mountain Pass. Now Honister is the name of a winding valley which snakes around the southern half of the Rock of Heaven.
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Moving deeper into Honister Valley we reach the village of Derton.
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The tallest of the mountains to border Cindersville is known as the Rock of Heaven.
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And we come full circle to the northern half of Cindersville's city centre, we also see in the bottom of the picture the end part of Maular Valley.
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The flat centre of Cindersville.
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With the what's what and where's where of Cindersville complete, let's begin the entry proper!
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We shall start with the northern half of the city centre.
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Parts of this area are some of the very first locations I built in Cindersville, other parts are the last!
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For the midrise buildings I used a mixture of Bixel's and Mattb325's content.
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Midrise or low-rise but wide was very important as the city centre comes to a very abrupt end due to the terrain of the area.
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To the left is the Youtube HQ which was created by Mattb325.
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A very fine addition to any city!
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Reaching the northeastern fringes of the city centre.
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Running from east to west.
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Monty's Roundabout.
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Making use of C.P.'s FA buildings.
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The literal centre of the city centre's northern half is Jacqueline Park.
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The avenue fillers were created by Motokloss.
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Mid-rise and chunky is ideal for building realistic city centres.
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Jacqueline Park.
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It took several hours to complete this area as I needed to find the right kind of park plus select the right kind of buildings. Technically Jacqueline Park is a square roundabout!
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I even squeezed in a tiny bit of fractionally-angled buildings too!
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To the right of the FA building are some of Simgoober's low-rise commercial buildings. Old but gold!
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Special thanks must be given to KingOfSimCity who created these fantastic parks.
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The northern half of the city centre is defined by the M6 highway.
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Incorporating the M6 highway was very tricky and ultimately required a lot of MMP work.
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Since the curving areas can never be fully filled-in this necessitates a small green divide between highway and urban areas.
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And here is another one of KingOfSimCity's parks!
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One of my favourite areas of Cindersville purely for the contrast of concrete car park and green city park!
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One of the reasons for building Cindersville was creating actual grid-busting city blocks. This became possible in 2018 with a whole bunch of fractionally-angled buildings created by Mattb325. Throw in the fractionally-angled industrial and 19th century buildings of C.P. and of course the other diagonal buildings made throughout the years (old and new) and scenes like this are now possible. As an added bonus I decided MMP back alleys and car-parking was the only way to go. Now urban MMPing is very time-consuming but well worth it!
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After this large entry I'll be posting the next one this Thursday.
See you then!
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