Kingdom of Nova Terra, Update 5.5: Hotel Regina

[Pat]

Hey Alan great update here and what I think where would be a best place to go next is Hong Kong!!! 

[CabraBuitre]

D.C. for me.

[metarvo]

Good work, Alan.     Your update has a very "green" feel, which is balanced by the snow scenes.  The buildings also blend well together, although it's difficult for me to tell what's Res and what's Com.  Although I don't understand the wording on the red-roofed building in the first pic, I assume it's a police station.  Am I right?

Anyway, I vote with D.C., since it's in the U.S.  Of course, I realize that I may be biased.

[kimcar]

Yeap it`s the right title for this great MD . Everythings is well thinking. Very good work mate.

[Cubbies09]

I think your german cities are very good, even more so when one takes into account the availability of good german BATs. I like the snow and the flora as well. Good work!

[papab2000]

Very nice update. Beautiful Those sheep on that farm look tasty. Yum Lamb chops

[art128]

this update is really great, I like this little village  the pond look good too ! Very great work my friend . The farms are great !
Can't wait the next !
Arthur

[ObladiOblada]

The sentece in the first pic means "Welcome in Germany"! But there ist an grammatical error...In german you would say "Willkommen in Deutschland"! But I know that german is said to be a very difficult language.
I really like your pictures. They remind me of Monschau (maybe someone knows this because of Christo and Jean-Claude), Eifel and the Rhine-Mosel-area.
It's very sad, that many fachwerk buildings were destroyed during the world war.
I voted for Washington .

[alan_vzla]

NEWS

First of all, thanks for all the nice comments so far, replies will come with a proper update. Today's post is to deliver some news.

First, the MD will change a little bit. Due to certain problems, the "recreation" style of the MD will change, now it won't be like this: "Today we visit London", "Today we travel to Vietnam" etc... but instead, the MD will be based on a fictional (don't know if it's the right word) country.

Updates will be based on a 2 week basis that I have been trying to maintain, and not to let go of this project that I comitted to do, sometimes "bonus updates" will be posted. These bonus updates will be similar to the ones I have been doing (with a theme, for ex. "German Farmland").  Sorry for going out of the "real cities" business, but I noticed that I'm not prepared and my planning and building skills are not as good as they should be to deal with such a big project.

Finally, I would like to excuse with everybody for leaving this project and for making you loose your time on a (as we say here in Venezuela) Big White Elephant.

Remember that this MD is still running, with a little detour, but still running. Thank you for reading and, one more time, sorry.

Alan

[Jill Jacobs]

Everything looks marvelous!  Your Italian, Dutch, and German recreations were wonderful.  I love the varying buildings, landscape, and scenery.  Your Plugins folder must be enormous!

[alan_vzla]

Hi everyone... As I previously said, I'm going to take a break from recreations and start my own kingdom...
The full update will come next week, the flag and coat of arms are ready, I'm just waiting for a friend to scan it and send it to me... Without anything more to say, I present you the first teaser of

REGNO DI NOVA TERRA

(Kingdom of Nova Terra)

[Schulmanator]

A hauntingly nice pic... looks like a great landscape for us to see in upcoming updates. 

[flyinbird93]

interesting last image, is that boat in water?  or is the water all gone now and it surrounded by trees

anywho nice journal can't wait for more

[Simpson]

Very fine picture my friend, looking super 

I reply to your PM

[bat]

These pictures are looking here all very nice! And that newest picture is beautiful!!!

[Pat]

Hey alan I am sorry to hear about the change of plans but hey if it must happen no matter what I will still follow along cause you are a darn good MD'er and that is all that counts no matter what style you go with!!!

It took me over 6 months to land my title of "Waterfalls... MD by Pat"...

SO like I said you will have my support here still and I like that picture a lot and I cant wait to see your flag and coat of arms!!!!

[flyinbird93]

great work, i love your lighting effects on your images

[alan_vzla]

Simpson: thanks, glad you like it
Pat: since Hong Kong did win the poll, thats the first place we will be visiting in a bonus update
CabraBuitre: Thanks for participaiting
Metarvo: yes, Polizei is german for police... glad you like the nature photos
Kimcar: thanks a lot
Cubbies09:thanks for that nice comments, happy to see you around here
papab2000: Glad you like it, if you ever go to that town, talk to taht farmar and tell him that you're a friend of mine... he will give you a lamb for a very good price 
art128: thanks! here's the update
ObladiOblada: what I tried to say was Welcome to Germany, not in Germany... yes it's very sad that many of these buildings were destroyed. Here in Venezuela is a place called La Colonia Tovar, it's a small town founded by german farmers, in that village all the buildings are Flachwerk style and german is spoken. It's said that the best peaches and strawberries of Venezuela are grown here
Jill Jacobs: Thanks... My plugin folder is not that big, because when I finish a town I remove the plugins that I wont be needing in the future, so myplugin folder is now ~480mb without Datpacker
Schulmanator: thanks! it took a while to get it just as I wanted
Flyinbird: yep, a boat in the water... thanks for stoppping by and good luck with your MD
Simpson: thanks!
bat: glad you like it
Pat: thank you very much... you surely have supported me a lot, here's the flag and coat of arms.... hope you like them!
Flyinbird93: thanks

A new start

KINGDOM OF NOVA TERRA, UPDATE #1
A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY

Nova terra was discovered on August 2, 1498 by Cristopher Columbus. On 1811 Nova Terra obtained it's independence from Spain after 50 years of war. After the independence, there was a lot of turbulence in the country, which allowed the Spanish Crown to obatin the power one more time, this only lasted 2 years. On 1830, the expansion wars started, after the 10 year campaing, Nova Terra doubled it's size and became one of the biggest countries of the continent. The economy of this new nation was based on agriculture, until 1914, when oil was discovered; the following years were marked by the great amount of foreign capital entering the country, it became one of the wealthiest countries, but this had a bad side, the fiels were abandoned and there was hunger in the country. During the following years this situation was solvented, and during the 50's the country experienced an economic boom that lasted for aprox. 30 years, this boom was due to the climbing oil prices, but on 1984 due to a coup, the economy collapsed and the currency was quickly devaluated, this situation persisted until the year 2000. On this same year, a recently elected president declared himself a dictator. During a period of 30 years, the country lived bad times, the people who dared to criticize the government where put to jail, many mass communication media were closed or eliminated, the economy fell on a 500% due to corrupcy and a bad economic policy... On 2032 a popular revolt started after the closing of the last non-government TV channel, the revolts occured in every city of the country, followed by a coup. The dictator was put to jail, two weeks later, he was found poisoned in it's cell. During the posterior months the country was without a leadership, and elections were made, the results made Alan Rojas (me!! whoopie!!) the new president of Nova Terra, which after some resolutions became the Kingdom of Nova Terra, monarchy was made the form of government to ensure that no other tyrant came into power during the following years, after a period of time had passes the monarchy would be eliminated and new elections should be made...

And now, I present you the national symbols of the Kingdom of Nova Terra

Flag

The flag has a blue background, with five yellow stars representing the five original colonies that signed the Independence Act on 1811

Coat of Arms

The coat of arms is divided in 4, the upper right corner, shows a tribal desing in silver and gold, which represent the variety of our nation. Next to it is a black lion rampant in a red background, these simbolize the bravery of our people. Under this one there are silver and gold lines, representing equality. And finally next to it there are two black crossed keys in a red background, symbolizing the possessions of the Kingdom. The shield is surrounded by two flags. Over it theres a crown, representing the monarchy. Finally there is a lace with three inscriptions: Semper Fi (always loyal), Regno di Nova Terra (Kingdom of Nova Terra) and Sic Semper Tyrannis (thus, ever (or always), to tyrants). Under it theres a plate with MCMXCIV (1994), representing the year where the last of the countries of the World recognized our independence

The currency is the US Dollar, the official languages are English and Spanish. Italian and Latin are also spoken, the last one is now officially teached in all schools to avoid loosing this precious language. The political capital is Pretoria, and the economic is Astoria.

Anyway... this is a small overview of Nova Terra, hope you like it and stay tuned for the next update

[flyinbird93]

A+ on the coat of arms looks great!  cant wait for the next update

[bob56]

Thats amazing! Did you draw it?