Maarten's Regions (Imaginia and Schellingen Stadt)

[Kergelen]

The interchanges are amazing and I like to see a significant quantity of traffic.
Night shoot 4.12 looks fascinating and in general the night pics are nice.

[noahclem]

Great update Maarten    I love the RHWs and trains and you've done a great job with the high-density center! Keep it up 

[bat]

25 nice new images there! Great work.

[MandelSoft]

Hi Maarten,

You have a nice collection of high rise buildings in there.
Just one remark: the sun farms are not very effective as you placed them in the shadows of highrise buildings. Maybe they should be put in more rural areas or in a park?

Frank

Yeah, I figured out that I did leave some solar power plants in-between the skyscrapers. What the hell was I thinking!?

Not a huge fan of the skyscrapers mess, but I have to say it's very nice. The RHW Fits well inside.

Trust me, it was a larger mess. I've actually cut down quite a few skyscrapers...

I love your freeways. The signs make them ultra realistic. The plus lanes seem to be a similar concept like when the emergency lane is opened for traffic during rush hour. They installed this a few days ago on a stretch of the Autobahn I commute to work on.

Similar, but not quite. What you're talking about are Peak Lanes, not Plus Lanes. Plus lanes are build on the inner lanes, Peak Lanes on the wide shoulder lane.

Peak Lanes are used to widen a freeway when it's too expensive or when there's not enough room to properly widen a freeway. I've seen it in Germany too on the A7 near Soltau, and here in the Netherlands I've seen it on the A1, A9, A50 and formerly on the A2 also (but that stretch has been properly widened).

Plus lanes have a more juridical background and at some locations it makes more sense to build regular lanes....

Hihi, That's irony...the person, who makes all this great euro-textures wich are find on nearly every european SC4-Computer, don't use them himself.

To the update:
In my opinion this great pictures would look better with your euro-mod, bud also in this way they are great.

Well, there's one very simple explaination for that: there are simply no textures created for the NMAVE4 yet. I have to work on that one of these days. The rest of the networks however do use Euro textures, as you may have noticed...

Very nice update! 

It seems that my Bat has invaded your city. 

Sam.

An invasion? I would prefer to call it a deliberate mass-use of your appartments 

You manage perfectly transportation ways 

Great work. I like the night images.

Beautiful

Great work on this update !

I'm looking for ideas with the RHW, and your MD is a nice place for that !

Great transportation networks indeed!
I have stolen a few ideas from here....thank you.

Robin

The interchanges are amazing and I like to see a significant quantity of traffic.
Night shoot 4.12 looks fascinating and in general the night pics are nice.

Great update Maarten    I love the RHWs and trains and you've done a great job with the high-density center! Keep it up 

Thank you all!

25 nice new images there! Great work.

Hoogerhey is a neighbouring city of Konrad. It's right across the river Kareel and it's alos part of the Capital District. Hoogerhey hosts about 200 000 inhabitants and the Imaginian gouvernment. The  is the capital of the Republic of Imaginia. The city itself is not really that big (only about 300 000 inhabitants). The rich and powerful and the poor and powerless are quite close to each other in this city, and sometimes this leads to social stress.

We start of at the office district in the city center. It's quite spacious; there's room for small parks as well as tall office buildings. This is the economic heart of the city.

Moving on east to the river, we come to the Nederheye district. This contains some offices, but also some residences in the south. You see here the entrance of the Vreerust Tunnel (N25) leading to Konrad.

The Nederheye area at night. At the right, you see the International Congress Center. Here the Imaginian politcians have meetings with their foreign colleagues...

And here we have the Gouvernment Districs, showing off some of the Imaginian ministries...

The main Parlamaint Building. Glad I could give this most excellent BAT a worthy purpose ^_^

Moving to the higher grounds of Hoogerhey, we come to Overheye. This district has quite some variation in building styles. It's home to poor as well as rich people in the city

Moving west we come to Sallandia. This city district is mostly made of pre-fab buildings...

But there are also some appartment blocks for the middle-class...

"Yo dawg, I heard you like prefabs..."

Soccer (or football, as we Europeans would call it) is also very popular in Imaginia. Here we have the stadium of the KSA (Konrad Sports Association) soccer team.

And I'd like to conclude this update with some Road-geek pics. Here we see a brand-new stretch of the C40. The C40 has the nickname Konrade Freeway, because it follows the river Konrade. This stretch is wider and less steep than the old stretch, which was running one kilometer west. The old stretch has been demolished. We are heading south...

We're approaching a major interchange: Hoogerhey Crossing. Here the C40 links with the C75 and N20. You see you already have to split up here..

Hoogerhey Crossing. It's not the best interchange, but it will do. However, you can't get on or off the N20 when heading east. The C40 (coming from the north/right) joins with the C75 and heads east (bottom). Straight ahead, the route continues as the N20 (left), which is not an official freeway, though it looks like one. The N20 is also called the Hoogerhey Bypass.

Heading further south on the N20, we come to Exit Hoogerhey-West...

A close-up...

A large junction rail and freeway junction, everything perfectly planned like a baws! 

And finally, one other pic of the N20 to conclude. A bit further East, the N20 ends on an T-intersection and turns south to join with the A5.

Next update: Newlandervayne. Stay tuned!

Best,
Maarten

[Buzzit]

this is one of the fewer diaries i keep reading from the start. its really amazing what you al created here! 

[noahclem]

Yo dawg, you build interchanges and pre-fabs like a baws 

Can I ask what the center, top building of the first night picture is and the office building on the left of the last picture is?

Also have you modified your rail flups so have sidewalk textures?

Great OSITM so far 

[Tarkus]

I need to stop in here more often . . . this is just fantastic stuff!  Your building style has a unique charm to it . . . I like how verdant and tree-lined things are in Hoogerhey's center, and that night shot is just exquisite.  I think you've also captured the juxtaposition between the different income brackets in the city very well, too.  And of course, the interchanges . . . absolute works of transportational art.

-Alex

[packersfan]

Incredibly impressed and jealous...Love the prefab building areas and your highways are always superb.

[MandelSoft]

Yo dawg, you build interchanges and pre-fabs like a baws 

Can I ask what the center, top building of the first night picture is and the office building on the left of the last picture is?

Also have you modified your rail flups so have sidewalk textures?

Great OSITM so far 

Nope, those are the standard GLR FLUPs

I need to stop in here more often . . . this is just fantastic stuff!  Your building style has a unique charm to it . . . I like how verdant and tree-lined things are in Hoogerhey's center, and that night shot is just exquisite.  I think you've also captured the juxtaposition between the different income brackets in the city very well, too.  And of course, the interchanges . . . absolute works of transportational art.

-Alex

Thanks for stopping by here, Alex! If it wasn't for you and the rest of the NAM Team, I couldn't have even created this

this is one of the fewer diaries i keep reading from the start. its really amazing what you al created here! 

Incredibly impressed and jealous...Love the prefab building areas and your highways are always superb.

Thank you all!

Newlandervayne is on the outskirts of the Capital District, located west from Hoogerhey. The city has only about 110 000 inhabitants, though it does have quite some skyscrapers. The further west you go, the lower the building densities become and so it's truly a metropolis outskirt.

Fun fact: I completely reconstructed the entire city (AKA demolishing everything, do some terraforming, reconstruct the road networks and build everything up again). This large city tile used to have 350 000 inhabitants. During the reconstruction, this has been decreased to only 130 000 (partially because I didn't want the skyscraper. Part of this city is technically part of Hoogerhey and Hertenkamp.

First, we start at the old city center (Oudesteede) on the central island of the city. It's a mix of wooden and stone buildings from the 18th and 19th century...

Next up we have the new city center, ruled by towers and offices...

But it's not all offices; here we have some ressidences too!

A part of Sallandia, technically part of Hoogerhey

Next up is the Kattenbergh district. It's build on a hilly area, but as I recently applied over at more locations in Imaginia, this district is build in a Terrace Style fashion...

Here we have Oudesteede Avenue, which connects Oudesteede with the N25 by a bridge. Here it passes Otterswyk...

A clever rail junction near Otterswyk...

Moving west, we have the district of Nieuwwest. With exception of an office area in the east, it's mostly a low-rise residential area

Moving on to the north to Klarenberghe, also built in Terrace Style and also mostly low-rise...

To the south, on the other side of the river, we have Assenwyck. This district has quite some appartment blocks for the poorer residents...

The local soccer stadium...

... and here a part of Hertenkamp-North...

And here we have some of my obligatory Road Geekery. We start with the main East-West-corridor of Imaginia, the C75...

Next up the N25 approaching the Oudehands Bridge...

Here the N25 crosses the A5 by a roundabout interchange...

... not far east from Assenwyck Crossing, where the A5 crosses the A16...

And a final pic of the A5 to conclude this update:

This is the final SC4D Of Special Interest This Month update. I hope you enjoyed the past few updates. Though I might be updating this CJ in the future, it will be less often than the past few weeks. Until then, see you later!

Best,
Maarten

[Aaron Graham]

Looks great, I am so happy to see my building in your city, I hate going in a city journal and I do not see not one of my buildings when someone makes a heavy urban area, I be like where the apartments, do not always show off the commercial area only. Thank you, and I love you city, I hope to come by again to visit.

[riiga]

Fantastic update! And I can see my suggestion almost made its way. 

[Allein]

Very nice picture

[noahclem]

Excellent cities, road-geekery, and OSITM Maarten 

[rooker1]

What a fantastic month it's been following you and your MD.

Thank you.
Robin

[MandelSoft]

Well, I think it's time to get this MD up and running again...

Lately I've started live streaming on twitch.tv (no regular schedule set, but often I stream at GMT early evenings), to show some of the behind-the-scenes work on Imaginian and more-over, my building style and techniques. During these streams I had a live audience who could give comments and questions while I was building (sometimes with the help of Skype). For those who missed it, here are the previous episodes regarding Imaginia:

Episode 2: Retrofitting Jonkersmond
http://www.youtube.com/v/gSF753Jthng

Episode 6A: Sebeshaber, terraforming for new docks
http://www.youtube.com/v/Cahnwv4lE9o

Episode 6B: Sebeshaber, constructing port facilities
http://www.youtube.com/v/VoG7wZQTUCU

Episode 8: the Farmlands of Norravik
http://www.youtube.com/v/fNPtITtghYk

Episode 9A: Widening the Motorway C40 in Mandora
http://www.youtube.com/v/pN_WVHQZTUk

Episode 9B: Widening the Motorway C40 in Mandora
http://www.youtube.com/v/E68bWWNfeFI

I stream live at http://nl.twitch.tv/mandelsoft when I stream.

Best,
Maarten

[Swordmaster]

Well, I think it's time to get this MD up and running again...

YES !

Although if you stick to the video format, that "yes" will subside a bit, because I don't have the time to watch them completely. So, unless it's a hassle for you, it'd be great to have a couple of pictures to go with them. Highlights or so.

Cheers
Willy

[MandelSoft]

Swordmaster: the videos are for me to show the WIP, the pictures often show the results. Sometimes (like today), I'll feature a UDI video.



So, I've done some reconstruction in Schellingen-Stadt. Here's a tour through the city for you to enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/v/AsLS3q8Z1ro



The Work-In-Progress (it has been hassle):
http://www.youtube.com/v/ABrHUSu3cFg

Best,
Maarten

[sunv123]

Took me a long time to finish those.

I really like the sound that you made at 51:09. Gccccahh

[Swordmaster]

Had a look at the first video. Pretty good city over there. I muted the music, though

Cheers
Willy

[Nexis4Jersey]

Nice videos!