Okay folks, an update on my latest progress: I got to thinking about it, and simply having the turntables immobile and the crane in much the same condition was just not going to fly very well on this project. If they could get both working on the 1/100 scale, then I had pretty much no excuse (i.e.: laziness) for mine to be stuck in place. Soooo.....   I began by cutting the "turntable" sections out the rest of the way; they had already been scored during the initial assembly