That's a MAJOR discovery -- now I wonder if that's "universal" and was the basis from which they made their castings? This has a lot of implications, not least of which is the following:Read, it seems that you and I were mistaken. Messerschmitt is not putty treated.
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I have to buy another box of Messerschmitt.
This orients the struts in a way that makes my original nacelle tie-down theory somewhat implausible, as follows:
IF the holes (that I filled with putty) are facing downward on the ILM master, and not sideways/outward to left/right, then the alignment of the integral landing gear rings and pinions now places these parts perpendicular to each other and NOT parallel to each other, which pretty much kaiboshes my whole theory of how they made the originals.
This doesn't mean they didn't use those ring/pinion sections as the base of the missing mystery greeblie(s), it just means that IF they did use them, they hacked the pieces apart a lot more than I did in my execution of the theory.
So I love you and hate you Shamon, because thanks to you I'm back to the drawing board (hate), but thanks to you I'm one step closer to actually figuring out how they did it (love.)
VERY INTERESTING.
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