Vintage Downtown Buildings and Apartments.

[jpetersjr]

Some more slow progress.

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Looking at the hotel name on the front of the building.

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Looking at the ornaments on the side of the wall.

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Compare to a vintage picture of the actual Plankinton Hotel from Milwaukee.

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[JustJim]

WOW!

The hotel is really a nice looking piece of work.



Jim

[jpetersjr]

The new hotel in the game.

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Note, the way the textures look is because of my graphics card and not the way the buildings would actually look in game on a higher level computer.



I now only have a handful of more buildings to build and then I'll release the second set of buildings.

[railbard]

Beautiful. I so want to see a Franklin & South Manchester style route for RW. It would need a real kick-a$$ system with SSD to run properly, but oh my goodness, with your stuff it would be so magnificent!

[jpetersjr]

Next, another large building.

Near the end I'll also do some smaller city buildings. But those have been pretty well covered already by GreatNorthernor. I'm mainly focusing on the larger parts of the big city.

Will do a set of urban houses though.

[jpetersjr]

A new building for the set, a vintage style downtown house. First of a couple old houses like these.

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[jpetersjr]

The new Downtown House 1 V1 in game and compared to the size of the other downtown style buildings.

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Even a city style house would be small compared to the large city buildings.

[PapaXpress]

JP, just a suggestion. Your metropolis is missing some infrastructure.

+ Fire station
+ Police station
+ Post office
+ Multi story grade school (which I still don't understand, we simply don't have them here on the west coast)
+ News Paper Office (like the daily planet, but not).
+ Radio station (TV station? or is that the late 50's?)

[jpetersjr]

Actually, at the moment it's missing a ton of things from apartments, office buildings and others. Once there are a ton of all of these it will then be a metropolis.


I will probably make some later, building buildings though still take a while. I'm only now starting to fill in some of the basic city buildings, such as domestic buildings.

I will try to make some later when I get the chance.

But I will make a fire station though. Anyone know of any pictures of that old firehouse that was used in the Ghost Busters movies. It was set in New York City. I would love to build that one.


.....Edit...

Another version of the new downtown house 1 is finished and in game.

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[jpetersjr]

Two more downtown houses for the set.

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These are the last versions of this shape. Next will be Downtown House 2

Also, here's a new warehouse I did a while back that I forgot to post a picture of.

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[jpetersjr]

+ Radio station (TV station? or is that the late 50's?)

I don't know, not sure if there was even such thing as a tv in 1935, or if there was much of a radio back then.

If not, the radio station will be in a later set.

[PapaXpress]

Crystal radio sets were around in WWII so there had to have been stations.

[railbard]

Radio became popular in the early 1920s. There were even car radio sets by the early 1930s. ABC, NBC, and CBS already existed, though in the case of ABC it was one of the predecessor companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio

Your radio building could simply be a large multipurpose downtown building with the station call letters emblazoned in a largish sign or neon letters. And probably an antenna tower on top.

I work at one of the oldest radio stations in the country. We're coming up on our 90th year.

[glenn68]

Would the call sign be KDKA?

Glenn

Radio became popular in the early 1920s. There were even car radio sets by the early 1930s. ABC, NBC, and CBS already existed, though in the case of ABC it was one of the predecessor companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio

Your radio building could simply be a large multipurpose downtown building with the station call letters emblazoned in a largish sign or neon letters. And probably an antenna tower on top.

I work at one of the oldest radio stations in the country. We're coming up on our 90th year.

[railbard]

Not mine. KDKA is said to be the first commercial station but there were at least two other "broadcasts" prior to KDKA's. it;s in the article I linked.

But my station is WTAD in Quincy Illinois. Going strong for 87 years!