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4junk3000
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9 years ago

WHYDW: Spirograph factory

4junk3000 wrote:
I used this new little factory as reason to redesign this whole block. I brought the pharmaceutical building from SH and tried to make an alley way that runs under the monorail back to the Orphan Alley, kinda like a dead-end road. It's a little cleaner than I'd like; wish we could put trash and other items under the rail pieces to dirty it up. I do like how the rail hides the signs, making it a little more generic industrial area.
http://i.imgur.com/pJEXEyn.jpg


Nice look! How did you incorporate the prison and surrounding buildings into it? I'm having a tough time getting anything to look decent with Orphan Alley so I may borrow this idea!
  • KSstateofmind1 wrote:
    4junk3000 wrote:
    I used this new little factory as reason to redesign this whole block. I brought the pharmaceutical building from SH and tried to make an alley way that runs under the monorail back to the Orphan Alley, kinda like a dead-end road. It's a little cleaner than I'd like; wish we could put trash and other items under the rail pieces to dirty it up. I do like how the rail hides the signs, making it a little more generic industrial area.
    http://i.imgur.com/pJEXEyn.jpg


    Nice look! How did you incorporate the prison and surrounding buildings into it? I'm having a tough time getting anything to look decent with Orphan Alley so I may borrow this idea!

    Thank you!
    I've since redesigned this area, as i wasn't happy with how the buildings of the alley seemed to have a back side but no front. The Dead Lobster also fit perfectly at the head of the alley way.

    So i changed the prison parking lot, added a dead-end road, and now prisoners are transported in from there. Eddie on guard for this shot was a lucky coincidence!

    I added a lot more trash, bent lamp post, etc. to really crud up this slum area. I wish we could put trash under the monorail track! I also increased the size of the yards behind the factories, then added some chemical drums and the boiling Lucite bin to the pharm lab, and a power transformer behind the spiro plant. I'm really happy with it now. The tenement buildings now have a nice view of the prison in front and factories out back. Swell place to live, not!
    http://i.imgur.com/phw0sabl.jpg
    Big pic: http://i.imgur.com/phw0sab.jpg