Not surprising really, why rant, when you fix. Simple really. Besides, I'm sure many boats differed greatly, especially when production ramped up.

Boats were painted in bright colors also to have a positive effect on the sailors' morale. The same is done today in space stations (ever seen interior shots of Salyut and Mir? They were painted in light blue, a color very close to the tint used inside soviet subs of the era).

Someone said it right, accuracy on something like this isn't everything. And on this color subject, one must consider the effect a white interior color will have on your eyes staring at it on your monitor for the lengths of time we do.
IMO, it's likely to be too bright and hard on the eyes after a while. So this color choice the DEV's made is probably due to this.
All simulation is a comprimise from the real thing and some things like this are done like it is as they are to accomidate the limits of the human eye, and the strain it may have on it.
One reason why I like the colors of this forum for instance, over those of other's I visit who's background is white. Very hard on my eyes, and I really notice the difference when I've been reading here for a while, and then go to say RCG foums and my eyes just go bonkers with it's white background.

That is very true actually. I dislike bright colours, especially those displayed on a monitor; bright white being one of the worst offenders for headaches. This forum has possibly the best theme I have seen, not too dark, and not too bright either.

Heh... maybe they did it to extend laptop battery time :haha:

I have seen pictures today on this forum of somebody who is
modding the real colours....:hmmm:

I used Ail's white interior last night in a mission and I must say I like it very much.

Regarding the boat being grey in Iron Coffins, I remember in the Martindale pdf that he mentioned the KM being more lax about boats being painted to spec due to shortages of paint and schedule crunches so it's very likely there were some boats near the end of the war (Iron Coffins covers the late war) that were possibly painted with grey interiors.

Found it on the mod forum,

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=166161

And the funny thing is, painted the proper lighter color... monitor, aesthetics are fine. My monitor didn't break looking at the modded screenshots. Someday UBI will make it the right way the first time.

Here's a mod you might want to try. It makes the interior white: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=166161

This mod has a couple of alternate floor colors to chose from: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=1683