Alright people, I haven't been on Subsim since my last post here (on page 3!) and I apologize for my lengthy disappearance. I thought this was a dead project and then I checked tonight and found another 11 pages of posts that were put up in my absence.
Anyways, I've seen a few requests for how to get on the team and others requesting status updates, etc and I'll try to answer those questions.
Embarrasing though it may be, there is pretty much no work done on the mod. This is primarily because I thought there was no interest in the project at the time and I moved on to become the leader of the naval division of BattleCry: Redemption (BC:R), a modern day MMO war game based on the Crysis engine. The first release of BC:R is going to include nearly all modern ground, air and naval units in service with Russia, the United States and possibly China as well and. More countries will be added in subsequent releases and, needless to say, the graphics will completely blow away anything based on the Silent Hunter III/IV engine. Anyone who is interested in that project can PM me for details.
Anyways, back to SHIV... All of the submarine models you have seen in this thread have been made by Dagon, who is not affiliated with this mod (he's working on his own stuff). Anyone who wants to join the team and actually get this Cold War Mod moving is welcome to PM me. Just list your skills and what you would like to work on. As I've said, I'm spending most of my time working with the BC:R team, so my role in this mod will mainly be advisory.
As for the setting and content of the mod, what would you like to see? As some have guessed, I was hoping to make this an early cold war mod (1950s and 1960s) because the technology was not much more advanced than in WWII and that would mean less work trying to integrate tech that was never supposed to be available in the SH3/SH4 engine. Dagon, however, is modelling wonderful late cold war submarines and that brings up the dilemma of the time period. I'll put up a poll and everyone can vote on it.
As for content, I would love to start out by implementing real cold war missions first, primarily based on the stories in the book "Blind Man's Bluff." From the US side, these missions would involve collecting Soviet missile telemetry, tailing Soviet submarines to gain acoustic data, and possibly missions as extreme as the cable tapping operations conducted by the USS Halibut, USS Seawolf (SSN-575) and USS Parche, as well as recovering missile fragments and surveying the sunken Golf II class submarine (which was destroyed in a CIA attempt to raise the then obsolete vessel). Fictitious missions involving the cold war gone hot may come later and their direction would likely be decided by public decision.
Well, that's all I have to say. If you have any questions, concerns, comments, etc please feel free to PM me.