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Took me way too long to spot this, but Rockwell's full-scale mockup of the Shuttle orbiter was built before the design was finalised, so it features the Vehicle 4 configuration's longer OMS pods that overlap the payload bay instead of the blunt pods on the final Vehicle 6.

And a couple more. Images: Number Station, Mike Acs, Ed Dempsey, Drew Granston, Boeing

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There's also the flip-out RCS, but that was later painted over; the OMS pairings retained the funky shape.