There isn't much to see as most of the work I have done relates to the sub project, Christmas Fenbury. However this is quite an interesting community lot. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Royal Air Force. Although it is seen as the Junior Service the contribution the RAF has made since it's inception has been considerable. Certainly during WW2 it was all that stood between us and invasion after the Dunkirk evacuation.
So I wanted a little tribute of my own and I have created RAF Fenbury. Many little airfields were set up during WW2 on the edges of villages and towns and Fenbury was no different, especially given it's proximity to the English Channel. Now you may wonder where the runway is, well, as with a lot of these little airfields this was given back to farmland in the late 1940s. However Fenbury air station remained open as a basic training establishment for new recruits and makes an ideal base for the military career. The only nod to flying is the heli pad on the parade ground.
I just wish I was more gifted in adjusting brick work. The buildings look brand new The lot isn't complete, I have yet to find a suitable sign and I need something for the plinths at the side of the main stairs.
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Beautiful tribute. As for the brick work, I think you'll need old looking bricks for that. The game does have old walls (I believe all Store), not sure about brick walls though.
Beautiful tribute. As for the brick work, I think you'll need old looking bricks for that. The game does have old walls (I believe all Store), not sure about brick walls though.
Maybe just darkening the colour of the bricks might help. I find even just making the grout darker helps. Yay CAST!
Beautiful tribute. As for the brick work, I think you'll need old looking bricks for that. The game does have old walls (I believe all Store), not sure about brick walls though.
Maybe just darkening the colour of the bricks might help. I find even just making the grout darker helps. Yay CAST!
When I have tried that before I tend to end up with orange bricks You are right though I should just persevere with CASt. I do have a lot of store content but had to uninstall a lot of it. EIG being the temperamental beast that it is does not like too much store content, so all I have loaded is the worlds and a few sets which I think appropriate for this build.
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I played with CASt. Still not totally convinced it is the right colour for the brickwork, perhaps a little too pink. None the less better than the toytown red.
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As much as I love CC I don't use it. The same with mods, although I will have to for the Fenbury rabbit holes. I try to keep things vanilla simply because I lack the IT skills to sort things out when they go wrong. Looking at these brick patterns though I am tempted to change my mind ......
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I've never had a problem with any CC ever. And I just won't play without Mods. It just makes the game so much more enjoyable.
EA patterns are just .... ewww! I never use them.
I am very pleased for you. Having access to all of the cc must be fun. When I was putting builds up regularly on the Exchange I made the decision to make mine cc free. This was after a particularly disastrous attempt to download a mod which ended up with a trojan on my computer and involved a visit to the tech shop to sort it out. I simply pressed the wrong button because I did not fully understand what I was doing.
I find I can do quite a bit with CASt and have even played with CAP in the past.
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Last week was a bit of a disaster. I have never really got a chance to run a resort. Playing IP vanilla is just impossible. So one of my crack pot ideas was to build a resort in Fenbury. I though I had found a perfect spot to put the new lot but as it happened I made the building 3 stories plus foundation which meant it obscured the view of the church and the lighthouse. So I sat and sulked for a couple of days, in between writing Christmas cards, prezzie buying etc and decided some rejigging of lots along the seafront might be in order. So I have moved the pitch and put closer to the church and rebuilt the resort on the old pitch and put lot. This means the views still work the way I wanted. The picture is of the resort is above. It is very much a work in progress. I have named it Hotel Splendide. The building to the left is the Palm Court appartments.
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I have been wanting to see what Fenbury looks like with the different seasons and thought I would share with you pictures of it in the snow. These include some of my favourite builds. Forgive the composition but I am no artist. Hard to believe because we always associate seaside towns with summer and lots of sunshine (perhaps not in the UK) but the seaside in winter can be just as beautiful especially when it snows.
Lastly may I wish you a happy, healthy, prosperous and peaceful New Year.
Betty
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I have a list as long as my arm of things that still need doing to Fenbury. Sadly most of it leaves nothing to show on the thread so I thought I would concentrate my posts on the lots, all of which need more work and most of which need their interiors doing. I have a couple more builds to do and I may add some extra lots for building at a later date.
Anyway I have been tidying up the Tudor townhouses. One of these I plan as a townie home.
The red doors need to be changed to a more subdued brown and the house on the right needs windows on the second and third floors.
The end house on the left hand side I will be using for townie accommodation. I have also been working on the Library. The front hasn't essentially changed apart from the addition of a car park. Most of the changes are at the back. I have also put street lighting in for the Tudor area. I thought the Belle Luxe light was just right for this area of the town.
Finally a little look at one of the messes I have yet to deal with. I need to experiment with the road leveling tool
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Thank you @JoAnne65 for you I will leave the red doors
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Another week of concentrating on things that don't necessarily make good pictures.
I have been experimenting with spawners. I choose fish spawners and below is a pic of their placement in Fenbury Lake.
I have also added street lighting to the High Street.
On the left is Gupta Antiques, on the right is the Early Victorian houses, with the Bridge Inn just showing behind. In front over the bridge is the Hotel Splendide.
Most of the limited time I have had this week has been spent on doing the internal decorations for an Early Victorian house. I have gone for a sea theme but kept most of the original plaster work, with stripped pine flooring. I would show pictures but I am not sure it is appropriate for a CAW thread and the rooms are small so it is very difficult to capture a decent image.
The house in question is the one on the far right.
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A busy week away from the computer and CAW. What little time there has been I have concentrated on spawners and water effects. One piece of fun was adding sail boats to where the river Fen meets the open sea.
To the beach I have added spawners and surf effects. I have also found a gaping great blue hole in the cliff face and am now wondering how best to repair it. Obviously I was a bit too enthusiastic when carving out the cliffs. It isn't visible until you approach the cliffs at water level. It probably wouldn't worry most people but it irks me.
You may notice I have added some greenery behind the beach huts. The boxwood towards the front of the lot has been removed because there is no way it can grow if it is constantly being covered in sea water I have worked on the interior of the beach huts so the lot is now virtually complete.
Elsewhere I have added a pond to the graveyard so sims can fish for the Death Fish. I have started to streetlight the Promenade, worked on the interior of the Hotel Splendide and started looking at the Ultra Modern house on Riviera Drive. I can't say the decorating is going particularly well.
Hopefully I will have more to show next week but at the moment my mind is getting busy thinking of all the things we need for our new adoptees. We are homing two semi feral kittens. Adorable to look at but they will need a lot of help adjusting to human society. Wish us luck
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So I wanted a little tribute of my own and I have created RAF Fenbury. Many little airfields were set up during WW2 on the edges of villages and towns and Fenbury was no different, especially given it's proximity to the English Channel. Now you may wonder where the runway is, well, as with a lot of these little airfields this was given back to farmland in the late 1940s. However Fenbury air station remained open as a basic training establishment for new recruits and makes an ideal base for the military career. The only nod to flying is the heli pad on the parade ground.
I just wish I was more gifted in adjusting brick work. The buildings look brand new
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Maybe just darkening the colour of the bricks might help. I find even just making the grout darker helps. Yay CAST!
When I have tried that before I tend to end up with orange bricks
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https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims3-materials-masonry/title/cyclonesues-weathered-brick/id/885379/
Thank you for these
As much as I love CC I don't use it. The same with mods, although I will have to for the Fenbury rabbit holes. I try to keep things vanilla simply because I lack the IT skills to sort things out when they go wrong. Looking at these brick patterns though I am tempted to change my mind ......
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EA patterns are just .... ewww! I never use them.
I am very pleased for you. Having access to all of the cc must be fun. When I was putting builds up regularly on the Exchange I made the decision to make mine cc free. This was after a particularly disastrous attempt to download a mod which ended up with a trojan on my computer and involved a visit to the tech shop to sort it out. I simply pressed the wrong button because I did not fully understand what I was doing.
I find I can do quite a bit with CASt and have even played with CAP in the past.
Wherever I am friends call me Betty
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Last week was a bit of a disaster. I have never really got a chance to run a resort. Playing IP vanilla is just impossible. So one of my crack pot ideas was to build a resort in Fenbury. I though I had found a perfect spot to put the new lot but as it happened I made the building 3 stories plus foundation which meant it obscured the view of the church and the lighthouse. So I sat and sulked for a couple of days, in between writing Christmas cards, prezzie buying etc and decided some rejigging of lots along the seafront might be in order. So I have moved the pitch and put closer to the church and rebuilt the resort on the old pitch and put lot. This means the views still work the way I wanted. The picture is of the resort is above. It is very much a work in progress. I have named it Hotel Splendide. The building to the left is the Palm Court appartments.
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Season's Greetings from Fenbury
I have been wanting to see what Fenbury looks like with the different seasons and thought I would share with you pictures of it in the snow. These include some of my favourite builds. Forgive the composition but I am no artist. Hard to believe because we always associate seaside towns with summer and lots of sunshine (perhaps not in the UK) but the seaside in winter can be just as beautiful especially when it snows.
Lastly may I wish you a happy, healthy, prosperous and peaceful New Year.
Betty
Wherever I am friends call me Betty
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I have a list as long as my arm of things that still need doing to Fenbury. Sadly most of it leaves nothing to show on the thread so I thought I would concentrate my posts on the lots, all of which need more work and most of which need their interiors doing. I have a couple more builds to do and I may add some extra lots for building at a later date.
Anyway I have been tidying up the Tudor townhouses. One of these I plan as a townie home.
The red doors need to be changed to a more subdued brown and the house on the right needs windows on the second and third floors.
The end house on the left hand side I will be using for townie accommodation. I have also been working on the Library. The front hasn't essentially changed apart from the addition of a car park. Most of the changes are at the back. I have also put street lighting in for the Tudor area. I thought the Belle Luxe light was just right for this area of the town.
Finally a little look at one of the messes I have yet to deal with. I need to experiment with the road leveling tool
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I have been experimenting with spawners. I choose fish spawners and below is a pic of their placement in Fenbury Lake.
I have also added street lighting to the High Street.
On the left is Gupta Antiques, on the right is the Early Victorian houses, with the Bridge Inn just showing behind. In front over the bridge is the Hotel Splendide.
Most of the limited time I have had this week has been spent on doing the internal decorations for an Early Victorian house. I have gone for a sea theme but kept most of the original plaster work, with stripped pine flooring. I would show pictures but I am not sure it is appropriate for a CAW thread and the rooms are small so it is very difficult to capture a decent image.
The house in question is the one on the far right.
Wherever I am friends call me Betty
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Explored everything there’s to explore? Here’s a brand new Shang Simla tomb for you.
To the beach I have added spawners and surf effects. I have also found a gaping great blue hole in the cliff face and am now wondering how best to repair it. Obviously I was a bit too enthusiastic when carving out the cliffs. It isn't visible until you approach the cliffs at water level. It probably wouldn't worry most people but it irks me.
You may notice I have added some greenery behind the beach huts. The boxwood towards the front of the lot has been removed because there is no way it can grow if it is constantly being covered in sea water
Elsewhere I have added a pond to the graveyard so sims can fish for the Death Fish. I have started to streetlight the Promenade, worked on the interior of the Hotel Splendide and started looking at the Ultra Modern house on Riviera Drive. I can't say the decorating is going particularly well.
Hopefully I will have more to show next week but at the moment my mind is getting busy thinking of all the things we need for our new adoptees. We are homing two semi feral kittens. Adorable to look at but they will need a lot of help adjusting to human society. Wish us luck
Wherever I am friends call me Betty
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