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and Titan 1 silo elements would best suit our creative agenda. Declassifi ed technical specs allowed for a very high level of architectural accuracy. After our super slick, Death Star- inspired Russian base from season three, it was very important to me that we lean more in the aesthetic direction of Aliens and fully embrace the gritty reality of a decommissioned derelict military installation. So, we strove for the claustrophobic weight of the real spaces, staying as true as possible to accurate dimensions and materials and using quite a lot of steel in the process. The crew built the set as one continuous space nearly three hundred feet long, three large rooms connected by two tunnels. We restrained our color palette, went heavy on the ageing, spared no expense on vintage lighting and hardware, and lined the walls of the missile chamber with carefully recreated blast panels. For good measure, we even based the NINA tank on the material style of an ICBM. I've now o cially run on well past an acceptable article length and have only lightly touched on just a fraction of the work that went A. & B. MISSLE SILO HUB. MODEL VIEW BY THOMAS MACHAN. C. MISSLE SILO AND OBSERVATION ROOM. MODEL SECTIONS DRAWN BY THOMAS MACHAN. D. THE NINA TANK (ON STAGE IN ATLANTA). PRODUCTION STILL. E. PAPA AND ELEVEN HEAD BACK TO WORK IN THE MISSLE SILO. (ON STAGE IN ATLANTA). PRODUCTION STILL. B A C