Another huge thank you for that posting EJ.
When watching the second film, just at around 18 to 20 seconds while the cameraman was running with the camera, I noticed he was running along Hood and did a frame by frame search.
Look what I found... a better sense of the size of the platform from X-Turret to the bandstand, but further confirmation of my observation the other day that the platform actually ended short of level with the end of the turret and the rear supports were removed at the same time.
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X Turret 6.png [ 354.61 KiB | Viewed 1959 times ]
This seems conclusive to me now... but I see only the remnants of the rear supporting plates are still in place, probably welded on and to which the supporting plates were then bolted.
Here is a crop with a touch more contrast to see the shapes of the support braces...
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X Turret 6 detail.jpg [ 43.59 KiB | Viewed 1959 times ]
The end of the first section is interesting... it seems it’s not a complete panel and it appears there is the remnants of the final supporting bracket for this section. A frame or two before this still is confirmation that the front three sections are still in place.
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The platform from the rear of Turret X to the bandstand (or should that be the other way round!?)is quite interesting...it is longer than I thought (and longer than the Pontos platform in the update set... and has greater support. That’s another area to modify
But my main thing is this platform... thanks for the clip EJ... (and maybe you can pull a better still from it than I can?) Virtually the last frame before the change to the cheering workers (at 21 seconds).
BTW... EJ, have you got any better (higher resolution) of the short little protrusions on the front corner of each turret (they look like short aerials with a ball top - but are almost certainly not))... and the one with the elongated ball in the front centre? (I have no idea what these are...!).
I have a decent photo of the awning support bracket on Y Turret, so thats fine... other than that, I think I have most of what I need to finish off my Hood turrets.