[WIP] Pearl Submarine Base

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Nauticalwolf

Does anyone have a photo of the church? (please)

Is there a particular name for the church you are trying to model? I ran a Google search, but I ended up with a bunch of different results for churches in the PH area.

[Nauticalwolf]

Hi Luke,

The truth is I'm not quite sure, The church/chapel is the one Frank mentioned earlier. I believe its been in the sub base since before WW2.

From the best reference shots I've got, I believe that the the building may have some sort of "floating" type roof, and I can't make heads or tails of what the spire is like.

These are from the best photos I've managed to find of the base.


On a different note though: I have a question for any of the old salts that served at pearl or anyone who may have visited the base.

Is the area in front of the enlisted barracks? sloping.

From different angles it looks like there is quite a slope going up to the barracks?

I thought I might adjust the dock model to add this slope

[Nuc]

Originally Posted by Nauticalwolf

Hi Luke,

The truth is I'm not quite sure, The church/chapel is the one Frank mentioned earlier. I believe its been in the sub base since before WW2.

I believe he was talking about the base chapel used in the movie Operation Pacific seen here:

http://www.submarinebaseph.com/Chapel1.jpg

edit: It was not built until 1944. Some info here: http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87..._10/bells.html
http://y23stockpic.free.fr/2001_honu...1h00m42s-O.jpg
https://www.cnic.navy.mil/navycni/gr...hapel_full.jpg

[Nauticalwolf]

Thanks Nuc,

Great references,

Not built till 1944 :hmm:

Out of curiosity you wouldn't know what the building I thought was a church was? it seems to have a spire or something in front. photo ref above.

Thanks again

[Nuc]

Originally Posted by Nauticalwolf

Thanks Nuc,

Great references,

Not built till 1944 :hmm:

Out of curiosity you wouldn't know what the building I thought was a church was? it seems to have a spire or something in front. photo ref above.

Thanks again

Unfortunately no, I was assigned SUBLANT during my time and visited Pearl only one day as a tourist. The engineer in me wants to suspect a furnance or oven exaust stack but I have no evidence. My afternoon of web searching has one more link to share:

http://www.csp.navy.mil/centennial/speech.htm

[peabody]

Originally Posted by Nuc

Unfortunately no, I was assigned SUBLANT during my time and visited Pearl only one day as a tourist. The engineer in me wants to suspect a furnance or oven exaust stack but I have no evidence. My afternoon of web searching has one more link to share:

http://www.csp.navy.mil/centennial/speech.htm

From zooming in, of course it pixelizes quickly, I would tend to agree with the stack rather than a spire. Just my 1 cent.

Peabody

[Nauticalwolf]

Thanks Nuc, Peabody,

I've gone with a stack and I'll put a bunch of trees around it like in my references.

All the buildings models are now pretty much finished ..... and I've set aside this week end for texturing.





I've a few colour refences like these





I know the time frame is not perfect but mostly the buildings seem grey/white/ "off white" colours. Shouldn't be too hard to sort out.

Now a point about frame rate in Pearl.

With the release of this mod I shall include some quick changes to the Naval Yard and Forde Island. (These are going to be my next two projects).

To help with frame rates I intend to reduce the number of animated cranes from the 246 "Thousand" cranes down to about the six or seven that were actually there in the forty's.

The other thing will be to remove the Grain silos, factorys, cranes, and partridge in a pear tree from what I thought was a Naval Air Station.

These small changes really help with fps.