His replies were all automatic emails. Never heard directly from him, and the latest have gone unanswered all together, so my reason for going ahead with my Frankenstein pods. Which I am happy with.
But, I was having trouble flattening the surface of the support to the fuselage, mainly because the pins were in the way. So the logical solution was to get rid of the bl00dy pins. Doing this I can now get the struts to fit snug!
So what I have done is Removed the pins from the pod and put the pins in the fuselage. But I had to enlarge the holes in the fusey, insert Styrene Tube sections and then drill them out so pins would fit In. I then drilled tiny holes thru the center of the pins on the pods to accurately locate them, then shave the pins off the pods and drill holes to match the new pin size.
Took me longer to explain in words, than it did to Do it. See below.