Blackheath Down

[angelah]

Blackheath Down is a working name, but I rather like it so it may stay that way. Progress is slow, there's a huge area to cover with scenery and although this is a revamp of an old route the revamp is just about total. I have changed everything from the terrain, track, stations, textures and even the sky!
Here are some shots :-

Running through countryside

Approaching the big viaduct

Start of viacuct

and on further

Far end of creamery

Poppies

Sandy Bay station 1

Sandy Bay station 2

Blackheath Down terminus

Meridian River 1

More to come....

Angela

 

[angelah]

Blackheath continued

And more...

Meridian River 2

The docks at Cranberry Cove

A grassy scene

Lake Valley river

running on

Near Meridian

The long curve to the river crossing

Distant power

The Dairy Products factory

More to come....

Angela

 

[angelah]

last lot

Poppies

Meridian station

Class 31 firing up

Cornfields

A farm en route

A river bridge

Cranberry yard

Seaside beach

Naval docks

And again

Sorry if I made two of the same anywhere... I get confused nowadays...

And many thanks to Photobucket for hosting my screenshots.

Angela

 

[LVman]

Not much into Europiean Content, but wow, i am amazed Angela! Very nicely done.
Cheers from the States.
Sean

 

[angelah]

Thanks

Not much into Europiean Content, but wow, i am amazed Angela! Very nicely done.
Cheers from the States.
Sean

Thanks for your very nice comment, much appreciated.

Still a fair way to go with the scenery yet.

Angela

 

[yoshicool]

Lovley to see a future english diesel route, nice work angela :udrool:

 

[angelah]

Thanks again

Lovley to see a future english diesel route, nice work angela :udrool:

I used diesels in the shots but in fact any form of morive power can be implimented.
I have stationed water columns on stations and there are turntables so steam is a go, plus and if a user wished, they could remove those and set up an overhead, so anything is possible.

This is an out and back layout with a smaller but even so, pretty large double track oval at one end, the end furthest from the terminus. And there is also a single line branch that runs inside that oval, so plenty of operational choice.

There is both inland and coastal areas so at least 2 ports, one is quite a large one plus the naval establishment.

Most stations have a Royal Mail drop-off and some have perishables pickups too. There are many large and quite a few small industries that can be served either from each other or via the ports.

For about 3/4 of the length the lines are 4-track, the inner two being fast. But as sessions are saved for a new one unfortunately Trainz resets the Track Priorities to 2 so they will always need changing otherwise trains tend to shoot all over the place. Once the values are set they behave perfectly.

Angela

 

[yoshicool]

I used diesels in the shots but in fact any form of morive power can be implimented.
I have stationed water columns on stations and there are turntables so steam is a go, plus and if a user wished, they could remove those and set up an overhead, so anything is possible.

This is an out and back layout with a smaller but even so pretty large double track oval at one end, the end furthest from the terminus. And there is also a single line branch that runs inside that oval, so plenty of operational choice.

There is both inland and coastal areas so at least 2 ports, one is quite a large one plus the naval establishment.

Most stations have a Royal Mail drop-off and some have perishables pickups too. There are many large and quite a few small industries that can be served either from each other or via the ports.

For about 3/4 of the length the lines are 4-track, the inner wto being fast. But as sessions are saved for a new one unfortunately Trainz resets the Priorities to 2 so they will always need changing otherwise trains tend to shoot all over the place. Once the values are set they behave perfectly.

Angela

Great to be honest i dont mind steam either

 

[ex-railwayman]

Looks fantastic Angela, but don't strain your eyes too much though.....

Cheerz. ex-railwayman. :wave:

 

[steamdrivre]

I'm into USA narrow gauge but had to say, Very Very nice.:Y:

Great job!


Rick

 

[angelah]

Ta...

Just to say thanks folks for posting your comments.

Angela

 

[nbrettoner]

Hi Angela,

We sometimes hear the phrase "a woman's touch", & this is what I choose to use in this case.

However, your use of colour texture lighting & realism is to me quite striking.
The variety you have in this route means 'dressing' the various scenes would have been challenging,
& demanded a lot of hard-slog work.
The level you have achieved is truly a credit to you.

Many thanks for what will be an outstanding route!.

 

[angelah]

Wow!

Hi Angela,

We sometimes hear the phrase "a woman's touch", & this is what I choose to use in this case.

However, your use of colour texture lighting & realism is to me quite striking.
The variety you have in this route means 'dressing' the various scenes would have been challenging,
& demanded a lot of hard-slog work.
The level you have achieved is truly a credit to you.

Many thanks for what will be an outstanding route!.

Crikey, what a build-up, I hope I don't disappoint now!!!
Many thanks for that though, I really do appreciate comments, whatever they are...
Yes, it's taken a long time and I am still going - can't say strong - just going. Quite a lot to do yet and I spent 5 hours downloading goodies today to go on the route, some already have.
It's thinking up little scenes.... more soldiers in the navy yard I think, nobody does sailors!
The ground textures are based on the west of England, I love that area and I love Dawlish and that stretch of coast, that's why the ground is so red, that's exactly what it is like for real.
I built an N Gauge exhibition route of the Dawlish stretch many moons ago, sold way back when... it's on my site, have a look.

Thanks again.

Regards to all. Angela

 

[angelah]

more pix

Here are some more.

If you look carefully in the distance you will see the plane coming in to land

And we aren't the only ones watching

An assortment of old cars, these are great models and well done to the creator

This area has more modern vehicles

A shooting party

The deer don't seem too worried by the Class 31 passing

Must be near the coast, seagulls at the station

A-hunting we will go (can somebody make some hounds please?)

The latest signs by Ricky Sykes on the house end

Angela

 

[angelah]

fishing

Here are a couple more shots of an angling complex.... golf one next.

Long view

Close view

Angela

 

[eldavo]

Tidy work Angela. All those water lilies will make casting tricky for the anglers.

Cheers
Dave

 

[colhad]

Nice work Angela, what I like about it is the texturing and also the lakes with lillypads.

Hope it gets released soon.

 

[angelah]

Rod Race

Tidy work Angela. All those water lilies will make casting tricky for the anglers.

Cheers
Dave

If you have ever watched the Great Rod Race with Matt Hayes when they went after Crucian Carp they fished in lilies just like that. Alan and I did in the past too, you have to crank up the gear a bit to 'bully' the fish through, that's all. Good for Tench and Carp there I reckon, think I'll get the rods out....

Thanks for your comments.

Angela

 

[angelah]

a while

Nice work Angela, what I like about it is the texturing and also the lakes with lillypads.

Hope it gets released soon.

There's still a fair bit to do yet. Have been putting in the rest of that leisure complex, gold course and swimming pools.
Test ran it today both ways, I had a train derail... goodness knows why, they never did it again, just a quirk I expect.

There's the side where it's 2-track to do yet, some done as you can see, this is the Dawling/Cranberry Cove and Pudding Lane areas, got to get inventive for that lot.
And some more big wide open spaces yet to be sorted out, might make some into a Moor, that way I can keep the assets down.

So no guesses when the release date will be, I am very reliant on how well my eyes hold out.

Thanks.

Angela

 

[angelah]

more shots

A few more of my work today....

A Class 43 Fag Packet in its element during testing today

The new golf driving range and course beyond

And the swimming pool and Lido complex

Thanks again to Photobucket for hosting my images.

Angela