My friend's recovered and so I'm back with my own fleet. This time with plenty of bling. Still largely
exploring what SCS have to offer - this time it's the Mighty Griffin tuning pack. But I did get a couple
of mods for this one, the tipper trailer and the paintable accessories. Sadly I didn't realise that
the way paint is added is by somehow copying over the skin of the cab onto the bars, resulting
in a small but strange flaw. Didn't notice till going through the pics. Well... whatever.
Rezekne. A pleasant but fairly run-of-the-mill place, New Vanilla again, we can call it. This church is the main landmark.
Growing up here on the estates can be tough. The sense of anomie, alienation, hopelessness.
Luckily there's always basketball. The dreams of getting picked can keep you going through the teenage years at least.
Leaving town.
Today we're heading north to the edge of Tartu with a cargo of ore. After getting these mods, buying the trailer and
tarting everyting up I found to my annoyance that there wasn't a job for this trailer type anywhere in the Baltic region.
So i had to "improvise". Not for the first time.
Crossing the border into Estonia, passing the old border checkpoint buildings.
Two tractors, two trailers.
A country lane near the main road.
Heading through south Estonia up to Tartu.
The village of Kambja.
Reached the edge of Tartu. Why does the trailer have XT on it? I found it while searching for a Scania XT mod that I'd seen in the SCS forum's "show your trucks" thread. Someone said it was private, like so many on there unfortunately are. I get it that some people don't want to share their work with others for various reasons, but then why show it off to people they know will want it, and then tell them "sorry, it's private"? Not everyone has the talent or time to mod stuff, and I feel I cannot condone their attitude. Anyway, no one confirmed that it was private, so I had a look around the internet and found that some sites were hosting an XT for 1.34.
Brief view of Tarrtu.
Looks pretty decent, methinks. Still heading for the (imaginary) unloading place with that ore.
This rock seems to have some significance. What, I cannot say.
Still faffing around Tartu. It's a big place. Anyway, I downloaded one, stuck it in ETS2 and fired up the game. Even though it said Scania XT on the .scs file, it turned out to be an "Argentinian" Volvo (so it said in the mod manager) with some kind of rigid open boxy thing on the back. I tried another site and I got the same thing. Looks like some loser deliberately uploaded his work and tried to pass it off as something that people might actually want in the hope that they will say "Hey, I wanted a Scania XT but - what a surprise - a Volvo with a box on the back. Wow, that's much better, I'll use that instead". Very irritating.
And we're at the delivery point. Honest.
Cargo "delivered", we're off in search of a real job this time.
At the panelak factory. Weather turned nasty.
PIcked up some panels to take to Valmiera back in Latvia. This is the village of Rongu.
This church is either in Valga or Valka. We're on the border again.
This is Valka, apparently. ProMods Valka looked somewhat nicer. This is probably more like how the buildings really are, though.
The sun came out as we headed down for Valmiera.
Scenery town, I think. Well, anyway, if anyone has a link to a proper Scania XT mod I'd be very grateful!
We've reached Valmiera.
Let's drop off these panels then.
Valmiera. That's all for now, have a good one!