Sandmann TV Lunochod rocket hull

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Update: status set to on hold. Anyway, time will reveal all. Have to advance my CAD skills first. Need to learn how to use more powerful programs. This will make the hull of the Lunochod moon lander rocket craft. These are the very first images of investigating how to make this thing work. Sandmann is sitting next to the Lunochod standing on the lander base. See the 6 segments of the openend hull. https://abload.de/img/sandmannlunochodonlanp8j5c.jpg Don't print it yet. It has no meaning right now. Updated the pictures, stretched to normalize the height. Buckled by Thingiverse preview anyway. Check out the original. https://thingiverse-production-new.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/67/8b/b6/92/a2/Lander_gestreckt_x_1.25.png Looking close up you might recover some hard-to-see details. On top, there's a thing that could make a coupling adapter or refueling system. Do you recognize the Gnubble for fueling on the segment above the window cutout on the right side? Don't know if they planned it this way. By chance, the segments have metal screws/rivets on top. Check out the big picture. The adapter could be made from magnetized steel machined on a lathe. The other possibility: They might have put a hook on top of the adapter for taking stop-motion shots. A wire could have been slung around the Gnubble then. Did they really make it this way? Even if they did, they would have hidden it from plain sight. Alles klar? Compri? Comprende? No, THIS was not how the makers made things work. The guys were very smart. Each time I think of the designer, I'm happy he was one of my comrades. But they only had a few runs on TV with space crafts made. Sandmännchen has a fleet of over 240 cars, planes, boats, and everything that can move to bring the Sandmann to the kids somehow.