Well, i am a bit late but i didnt make any pictures of first steps i took.
Firstly i did outer border 411x411. Then i did center 211x211. After that i burned down all the forrest in the middle area and started flattening the mountains and building layer by layer of outer island shell. Now this shells is more or less complete and here are the first few snapshots!
Location on server 1:
Pics:
shell completed:
....will update soon....