Thank you for the comments on Halibut Cove. I saw a TV show about purchasing property up in Alaska and one of the episodes was at Halibut Cove. They took the boat over from Homer and as the camera's started showing the homes on stilts and how they all had that unique look, I knew RTMM had to make a scenery package for this place. I contacted Rod Jackson and we started brainstorming. Xavier Carre' helped with making some excellent custom objects based on real world structures and we were on our way.
As it took on a life of it's own, the team effort from RTMM is definitely on display at Halibut Cove. From Dex Thomas's AI boats to Robert Pomerleau's videos, and all the little touches in between. We all come together to make this one of our most detailed and special places.
Thanks again
Brad
Yep, Halibut Cove was a great project. I have listed below a few facts and some interesting (and in one case sad) information related to our Halibut Cove project .
Brad contacted me with the Halibut Cove sceney project idea on February 15, 2013. We began work immediately. There were nine developers including myself and 3 beta testers. The scenery was finally released on July 19, 2013 after 5 months of work.
One of the features of the Halibut Cove scenery is that it bears a striking resemblance to the real life version of Halibut Cove. So much so that we have a video comparing some of the real life structures to several of the scratch-built scenery structures we created. If you haven't seen that video, take a look here:
http://return.mistymoorings.com/mistys/#videosOver the last few years, the real life counterparts of two of the Halibut Cove scenery structure sets were featured on TV shows about buying real estate in Alaska. One of the shows was originally aired before we built Halibut Cove (this show was probably Brad's inspiration though I didn't see it till after the project was done) and the other episode was on the air well after we released Halibut Cove.
It was very neat to see the inside of the house I built called the "twin boathouse house" as well as the beautiful inside of the house set Xavier built called the "big yellow house." See pics at the end of this posting of the structures as they appear in our Halibut Cove scenery.
The "twin boathouse house" was the property that a couple finally decided to purchase in Season 1, Episode 2 of the TV show, Buying Alaska. The title of the episode was "Seldovia Fishing Paradise". The original air date was October 21, 2012. The 1 bedroom house on 1.5 Acres sold for $331,000. The family was from Utah and this would be a summer place for them and their 5 kids to go to for fishing and other water based activities. The dock turned out to be shared with one of the twin boathouses belonging to the featured property and the other boathouse belonging to a neighbor. I cannot reproduce any pictures from the TV show here (due to copyrights) but you might see it in reruns or you can license viewing of the episode for about $2 via Amazon or You Tube. On a side but very sad note, a couple of months before this episode first aired, the husband, who was a CFI, died in a plane crash. Here is a link to the news article on the crash:
https://www.ksl.com/?sid=21941165The "big yellow house" was one of the properties visited in the TV show,
Living Alaska - Season 1, Episode 9. The title of the episode was "Hammershoy's Halibut Cove". Its original air date was April 6, 2014. The asking price for the 7,000 sq. ft. "big yellow house", that included the barn and boathouse/docks below the house was $1,700,000. It includes 8.65 acres. The inside of the house is gorgeous. However, the couple that was looking did not buy this house but instead bought a different house that we did not model in our scenery. Again, you might see it in reruns or you can license viewing of the episode for about $2 via Amazon or You Tube.
If you haven't yet visited RTMM's Halibut Cove, you need to think about making it your next stop!
Rod