Mo-bile Homes

[SMMDigital]

[Lawyer Voice] The following message is tongue-n-cheek. Do not be alarmed.

Goodmornin' Railworks America!

You know what makes me mad enough to suck hot lava through a stainless-steel straw? Mad enough to call up the President and ask him if he's got Prince Albert in a can?

It's the fact that we ain't got no mo-bile homes in Railworks. Now any gourd-head that gradea... graduet... passed the third grade knows that you caint model the south of the US of A without mo-bile homes! They're ubik... ubeeq... they're evrywar! We got places called "trailer parks - or as I like to call them "Tornado bowling alleys" - where they go as far as the eye can see! We even go to school in mo-bile homes. Chances are, if you live here war I do, yur pappy had one, yur maw and paw lived in one, and if you become a successful chicken catcher down at the hatchery, you'll even have one!

Now I know that Railworks has got two of em in the Root Editor, but them ain't no good. They look like something you'd put behind a REAL mo-bile home! They might be good for storing yur lawn mower, or yur coon-dog, or even for a little privacy when you wanna smooch yur best friends gurl, but they aint real USA mo-bile homes. No sir!

What we need is a few Fleetwood 16x80's, maybe even with that add-on 10x12 sunroom. Or maybe a 14x60 - still plenty big enough for you and the eight kids (the dogs will have to stay outside). Or heck, maybe we could even go real fancy and make one of them Palm Harbor double-wides, you know the ones they say can survive a huricun?

Anyway, if some of you talented modelers out there would make a few of these, or even send me some good texture pitchers so i could make them, i'd be much obliged.

Wake up Railworks America!

Come to think of it, cars up on blocks are pretty common too. And here's somethin I bet ye didn't know: in the town of Varnell, Georgia, the City Hall and the Police Department are located in... wait for it... a double-wide mo-bile home!

:)

P.S. - Take your hand off the "notify admin" button; i've lived in and around mo-bile homes for most of my life!

[micaelcorleone]

Watch your language Hillbilly! (just joking)

Indeed, some new mobile homes would be great to have.

[Bananarama]

It's the fact that we ain't got no mo-bile homes in Railworks.

Fish around the San Bernardino route. I believe there's a few in there.

[Toripony]

Funny post.

I just pulled those two texture sheets out to do some repaints, but you're right... we need some various sized units to make a real "gossip village" (just kidding, too... some of my best friends live in trailer parks... one guy has a blast starting rumors just to see how fast they spread through the park, lol).

No kidding though, most all of our U.S. routes could use more mobile homes. And pickup trucks, too!

[dejoh]

Im Peed-Off. You people should know that the real title for a trailer park is a "Modular community".
There's alway somthing going on down in the trailer park.
Let see some double wides.

[jpetersjr]

I'll see if I can build a few.


Here's a start, it isn't much yet, until I crop on the windows and doors. This will be a large kind of mobile home.

Moble Home Progress 1.jpg

Sincerely jpetersjr


If you have any real good photo closeups of windows and doors for a mo-bile home those would help alot.

[Toripony]

In my neighborhood double-wides are considered homes, not trailers. Usually they are on 1-2 acre lots with a foundation and basement.

[SMMDigital]

The Municipality here still considers them to be trailers, even if they have metal underpinning or concrete block basement. You have to pay a yearly Advalorum Tax on them, just like a car, and have a tax sticker on them, just like a car. Of course, they're not mobile anymore after you cut the tongue and the axles off and sell them for scrap.

@jpetersjr - I don't know if this will help much, but here are a few recon photos I took while out and about today (29 mb zip file with photos)...

http://www.smmdigital.net/TrailerParts.zip

CGTextures.com may be able to help with the siding for the home.

[arizonachris]

We have two different types out here. "modular" and mobile. Mobile homes, you can only put a "skirt" around, must leave the hitch, and pay a yearly DMV license fee. Modulars are trucked in and assembled in a park, on a foundation, usually double, some triple wides. Drywall inside, jacuzzi tubs in the master bath, might as well be a house. Just some FYI.

[dejoh]

Anyway ya place them, there a blot on the land. I've seen acre's of beautiful land in Fla. leveled for these.
Still, there's a place for them in RW.
No offense to the folks that own one.

[jpetersjr]

Good news, will have the first one finished by tonight and will do more soon.

Gather me all the reference photo's you can, including windows and doors and I'll see if I can bring it to Railworks.


Here's some progress on this one so far.

And the windows and doors are becoming a great help.

Trailer Progress 2.jpg

Sincerely jpetersjr

[jpetersjr]

Released. Should appear in the library here tomorrow and at trainsim.com.

More are to come, hope this helps you some.

U.S_Trailer_House_1_Photo1.jpg

Sincerely jpetersjr

[arizonachris]

Looks great, jp, but should have a carport/ awning in the front.

Seen that photo before, Dejoh. That is actually kinda cool!

[jpetersjr]

Not all mo-bile homes have a carport, my grandfather's and grandmother's both don't have one. This one was basic designed after my grandmother's.


It does have the roof protruding over the edge of the wall, but doesn't have a carport awning, like some I've seen.

[SMMDigital]

@arizonachris - We have the triples and modulars here too. One of my family members has a triple wide - five bedrooms, two baths, a den, two living rooms, and a huge kitchen. Still has to have an Advalorum Tax sticker. My dad just had a row with Code Enforcement last year because he refused to display the sticker on the outside of his mobile home. He's basically replaced every part on it and made it look like it was a site built house, but they county still wants that little sticker displayed right by the door!

The modulars here are basically site-built houses that are brought in in sections on flat-bed trucks, lifted off by cranes, put on pre-built foundations, then finished with sheetrock and the like. No wheels or tongues.

Incidentally, there used to be quite a few mo-bile homes here in my county. However, some high-ups and stuck-ups on the town council decided that mo-bile homes just ain't ritzy enough for our little rural county. They ran the mobile home dealers out of the county and jacked the permit process and taxes up so high that it's about the same as building a site-built house. And if you do get a permit, the Building Inspector is going to make sure to give you an extra hard time before letting you move in. In the surrounding counties thought, mobile homes outnumber site builts by 8-1.

@jpetersjr - thanks for your work!