St Andrews - 10th October 2011 - Small Heath still lives!

[Nardo69]

Oh boy.

Usually there is either high speed or high quality.

Here is both high speed and high quality. WOW! 

No wonder I haven't commented the last update - you're way faster than ol'Papa Nardo! 

Great work. Nice layouts, nice shots, combined with some stories. Love your Style!


Take care - and don't forget to make backups!


Bernhard 

[Battlecat]

Fantastic updates!  I go away for a couple days and you punch out several more excellent looking scenes!

Your plopable water streams are particularly inspiring.  I love the rocks you used to detail your shoreline in the last few updates.

[io_bg]

Lovely nature shots, the detailing is great

[noahclem]

Wow, you are really fast! Great work on these updates!    I really the freight transit areas, that little deck overlooking the pond,  the rural stuff in general, and especially that monastery/vineyard thing in the most recent update. Keep up the great work!

[kodlovag]

Hey, great updates! And you are very fast, we can't comment so often.

[Tomas Neto]

Amazing update!!! Great work!!!   

[bat]

Your MD is really fantastic!.
All your pictures are beautiful.
And the waterfall is very, very nice.
Looking forward to more of your great work...

[Exla357]

Man, you're just an update machine! I'm outta here for 2 weeks and look what I miss! Oh and is that house in #10 for sale? I must admit I'm stunned with the amount of patience you must have to plop all that nature stuff by hand, and you actually make it look good, too!

[Terring7]

I really adore those green landscapes. Keep it up

[rooker1]

 Here is an MD with incredible scenic waterfalls and beautiful rural city scapes and these are the resons we'll be spending the month with Reikhardt in OSITM.  Congrats and I look forward to seeing what you have in store for us.



Congrats from myself and The SC4D Staff!!!

[Battlecat]

Congratulations on being selected for OSTIM!  I look forward to seeing what you've got planned for this month!

[Reikhardt]

Replies:

Bernhard: Many thanks indeed for the kind words, nice to know papa Nardo approves! As with yours and other comments regarding speed of update, I will slow them down now so people can keep up (and also as we are about to hit updates on current work!)

Battlecat: Thank you sir! I owe many thanks to Marsh for telling me where to find the Flat Rocks and thanks to NBVC for creating them!

io_bg: Many thanks! In all honesty I could make nature shots all day and not bother with towns & cities! Maybe they should make SimNature!

Noah: Thanks Noah! Those freight stations of Paeng's are great, I love his work.

kodlovag: Thank you! Duly noted, brakes are being applied to update train!

Tomas Neto: Cheers!

bat: Thanks for taking the time to look at my work and thanks for the compliments!

Alex: Thanks! The locals don't take to kindly to out of towners coming in and driving the house prices up  Plopping MM is kinda hypnotic, once you start it's like painting a picture, the time just flies!

Elias: Cheers! As do I love the red landscapes   

rooker1: Many thanks to you and all the SC4D staff for making St Andrews OSITM! This really is the icing on the welcome cake here at SC4D!

Battlecat: Thanks again!

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And now as we leave Cofton Hackett on our way to Small Heath, we pass over the Barnsley - Marshall rail bridge, constructed over a small, boggy section of land; This was a little terrain experiment, so apologies if it's not quite up to usual standards!

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Some more swamp shots:

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And a strange, isolated house....

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And to finish, just for fun, a local newspaper front page:




Many thanks for viewing & commenting!
I hope you enjoy St Andrews during it's spell as OSTIM during April!

Next up: An introduction to Small Heath (all new and exclusive to SC4D)!

[kwakelaar]

Actually a very interesting experiment, and you have done very well to try to create a swamp. Maybe the green water is a bit misleading in the first picture (I did not see at first that it was water). But in the next images I think it works.

[Tomas Neto]

Fantastic update!!!   
Congrats on OSITM!!!!   

[noahclem]

Congratulations on OSITM for April! You've really done an excellent job with your MD here.

I also really like your experiment for this update. I'm a sucker for both MMPs/nature scenes and rails and you've composed these very well. Nice little house too--does some kind of crazy swamp person live there?

Also, nice "unrelated" newspaper articles 

Looking forward to an exciting April around here!

[kodlovag]

Congratulations on OSITM!
Well deserved.

[nedalezz]

That was quite the update!

I really enjoyed the rural shots, and the one with the isolated house is a beauty!

How did you get the grass to appear like that? Is it photoshopped? Regardless, its beautiful

[wwecruz]

Very nice update. Love the rail line 

[RickD]

I like the bridge. Especially the pictures with the rain/fog effects. Great athmosphere.

[Reikhardt]

Replies:

kwakelaar: Thanks! I tried a number of different water types including transparent ones. I settled on that one as I was trying to achieve this effect:


Tomas Neto: Thank you & thank you!

Noah: As always, thanks for your many kind words! The newspaper article was created whilst I was at work. Not a productive day in the office 

kodlovag: Many thanks!

nedalezz: Cheers! I only photoshop the images to improve brightness & contrast. Sometimes I add weather effects. The grass I think you are referring too will be part of Chris Adam's Pasture Flora

wwecruz: Thanks! I'm a sucker for trains in MDs 

RickD: Thanks, glad you enjoy my work!

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Today's update is really to just make timely replies to all the people who have taken the time to leave feedback, but I'll give you a little teaser of some work in progress:



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