I wanted to share portraits of the 62 sims I made to start out my new custom hood, Coldwater. I made 62 because that's how many eye colors I have and I wanted to use all of them. Sharing this under YA pics because I created them all as YA so that I could play them through University because that'll give me ample time to decide who I like and who should become a townie
They're separated into 4 households because playing 15/16 sims at a time is much more manageable.

House 1 "Primis Prota"


House 2 "Secundus Defteros"


House 3 "Tertia Tritos"


House 4 "Quartum Tetartos"


I realize that there are many more sims with red & brown hair than black & blonde, and that's because Simgaroop'd colors come with light/dark red/brown and I treat those as separate colors even though the game doesn't. They all have last names of course but that'd just crowd the screenshot. I'm also kind of impressed how un-sims-2-ish some of them turned out due to the sheer amount of 3t2/4t2 conversions I have.

Ling Zang falls in love with Lay Chow..of course, as I created Lay just for him. I named her Lay because "Ling & Lay"; wish I had thought of a more Asian name for her.

I've been on something of a young adult-making spree as of late and I'm loving the results. It's also given me a chance to try out clay hairs, since I used to shy away from them.

typical dorm

Old screenshot of My young adult Sim "Ariana Brown (formerly Ricardo)" and David Ottomas as a young adult
Also Starring YA Ginger Newson, YA Teen/Child townies, YA version of one of my beloved Sims called Cookie Skeizers

Jenny Curious, and Rick & Jane Smith enjoying the college lifestyle. Rick and Jane are staying in the student housing building, meanwhile Glarn managed to secure her a tiny, cheap 1-bedroom house to stay in. Not much, but keep in mind he still has 5 other kids he has to help support now

My university's cow mascot likes to play the piano - very badly, as her cloven hooves are not dexterous. The clanging was rhythmic enough, however, for two of the students to start up a smustle party! Iola Cooper, who is very studious, stood and stared at her dorm-mates' antics for a moment and then left for her class.

My TS2 sim brewing Up Some trouble.

I might need to make a trio of witches to play as.

First Witch: When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Second Witch: When the hurly-burly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.

Third Witch: That will be ere the set of sun.

Class of 2003 game night at the Yucca Valley Pizza Planet.

A couple of days ago I got a Private Message from a Simmer here, asking me to send them a college student to enrol at a custom college they're developing. Since it's called a "private" message, I won't say who sent me the PM, though I presume they've sent similar PMs to other people. Well it took me a bit of thought to decide who to send, deciding whether to send a teen anxious to start college, or a YA already at college. And whether to make a new Sim, or send one already in my game. In the end I've decided to send one who at present is on the fringes of my game. . .


Here is Christian Tolley, currently a 1st Semester student at Land Grant University.


Here he is when visiting a friend's house in Baldrair Bluffs. He is wearing his formal outfit.


Here he is in his friend's garden, wearing his everyday outfit. His formal and everyday outfits are very similar, and I'd understand if he wanted to swap them over. The two teen boys in the picture are other friends of the young man who invited him to the Bluffs. The red-haired boy who's talking is Matt Sparks, and the one almost hidden by flowers and foliage is Aaron Lightbody. Both may go to LGU one day.


These trunks are his sleepwear, but I think they may be more suitable for use as swimwear, which is why I asked him to pose beside the hot tub.

Christian is currently a Dormie, and his clothes are the ones he generated with. All his clothes are CC. All being well, I'll be sending him with all his clothes to the mystery college founder, as soon as I can get all his stuff packed. At one time Christian had a room in Dormitory 2 at Land Grant University, but the college authorities made him vacate it, to let a playable student move in. Understandably Christian is not too happy at this disruption of his studying plans, so he is more than happy at the idea of moving to a different academic establishment.

There was another LGU student that I considered sending . . .

I love Christian Toleyin !!

I got that message too, but I'm not even playing a Uni at the moment.

These pictures are mainly for the benefit of the unnamed Simmer I mentioned a couple of posts ago, who runs the college that Christian is about to transfer to.


Christian Tolley in his underwear. These are extracted by me, from an outfit by Ascarion here on MTS .


Christian posing in his swimwear. It's by MrsM'Quve from her GoS August 2016 Monthly Theme Contribution. I believe the speedos are originally by Figs. They are in lots of Pooklet colours named after explosives, and these red speedos are called "Flammable".


Christian posing in his gym clothes. Many of my Sims choose to exercise in skimpy swimwear. These speedos too are by MrsM'Quve. The Pooklet colour name for these blue ones is "HMX", an explosive I'd never even heard of before; I had to look it up on Wikipedia.

I think Christian is wondering if I've taken leave of my senses. I kept asking him to wander round and pose in different parts of the room wearing various skimpy outfits from his wardrobe, before finally letting hm go back and join his friends sitting on the couch chatting. Maybe he thinks that I might fancy him! (He might not be all that far wrong. ) Maybe he should consider modelling as a career. But I don't think you need a degree for that. Well, not yet anyway!

[EDIT] I have now learned that the college that Christian is going to requires students to wear Maxis clothes, and preferably have their hair in a Maxis style.
I understand that, when he gets there a skimpy leaf outfit will be available for him, which I think he will be happy to wear. However the leaf outfit is not available to me here, so for the picture above he's wearing plain white Maxis underwear. (I made this as a separate so he could wear it for Everyday.) His hair I think is a bigger problem. His hairstyle by Peggy is in a "gold" colour, which is a sort of reddish blond. The Maxis styles available to me are all a lighter yellower blond colour. I don't think they're as good as his "Peggy" style (which might be free male hair 0028-070429). For these pictures he is wearing Maxis hairs which are the best I can come up with: on the left is a base game hair which I do like, but a lot of other Sims (including Mercutio Monty) have their hair in that style. On the right is the same hair in red, but IMAO the blond one suits Christian better. In the middle picture he has has hair in a Maxis style that came with Open for Business. Its nice and long, but I'd prefer more of a fringe at the front. (I think a fringe makes you look younger, while a bare forehead makes you look older. I have tried to keep my own hair in a mop -- a bit like Andrew's -- ever since I left school at 17.) OFB is my highest installed EP, but there may be a better hair available in one of the later EPs.


Maybe though there's a teen in your game, who doesn’t want to wait till you're playing a university again!? Maybe they could go away to study for a while, and then come back later with degree. After all, there was a teen came to Veronaville, and went home with a boyfriend!