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Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan
Craziness of what KM said there... is with the movie... Hunt for Red October... that was a set, but... the crew did great, in My opinion of making it feel like they were actually in a 'Typhoon' class sub.
The whole set up was on a gimble rig, so that all the diving, turning motions.... were able to be accurately shown... no having the actors leaning to imitate motions... well, they still had to, to compensate for the gimble... but... it looked loads better than them having to act as though the sub was in motion.
Knowing that those subs from WW2 were cramped as all get out... was a credit to the set designers that they got it done nicely... but if not, then the cam crew, did a good job of shooting.... is all I can say. That comment about the cramped conditions, is what I know, having been on the "Drum" there, in Mobile.
Of course, that's a Gato class boat & no idea if a Balao is bigger inside or not.
As memory serves... the ''Stingray'', in Down Periscope, was a Balao class. Thinking on it... having watched Run silent, run deep... the quarters, looked a bit... more snug, than what I recall inside the... Stingray. 
M. M. |
As KM stated, Gato/Balao/Tench are near identical interior. The Gato's I've been on, with Drum being the earliest Gato (was even built before the actual Gato lol) the ladder in control room to the conning tower is situated between the plainsmen facing port, in Balao the ladders are like they are in the game. Basically, UBI gave us a Balao control room and conning tower to use on Gato, Tambor, Gar lol, cheapskates. For immersion, I have a optional mod to enable when using Gato, Tambor, Gar that puts ladder in correct place, One thing will note is depending on which yard boat was built at, some have small differences internally etc. One reason people had to qualify in each specific boat, even if previously qualified on boat of same class was to learn the small "quirks" and differences of each boat. Kind of shocked me they permitted such variations, the Navy but supposed war time mass production and all had to make allowances.
USS Pampanito (Balao) which is in San Francisco, was used in the filimg of Down Periscope. I've been aboard her, one of the better preserved subs out there, when I visited anyways, assume still that way. Some of the shots appear in the actual interior, such as the torpedo room, galley, captains cabin, but the control room definitely was not lol, that was a set constructed to tell the story, it was far too large, had things not actually in the control room etc.
Kind of cool, to shoot the scenes of the 'Stingray' underway, they towed the Pampanito out of her berth, painted as the Stingray, made for some great shots.