I haven't had too much time to work on the HT as of late. last night and today, I was able to cover some ground. I'm going to use a HL/WSN turret traverse, but instead of using the ring gear, I simply modified a Bandai road wheel plug/cap, cut a hole in the traverse gear, then mounted the cap directly to the final gear shaft. I will mount the turrect directly on to this plug in the center. I went this route for obvious space reasons. One of the pics shows what it will look like once mounted in the compartment directly on top of the DMD.

I also have been working on the turret itself and have cut some templates out of construction type paper and hope to cut out styrene pieces using these as stencils. I made a guide using some wire and angled it to 60 degrees in order to ensure I cut the templates to the proper (or consistent) angle for each piece.

I also replaced the rear plate from the .060 thick styrene to 1.18 stock. This reduces rear flex and gives it a more solid feel/construction.

I'm obviously taking some "artistic license" here since the scale and dimensions aren't correct since this started out as a 251. But... I hope it looks close enough when I'm done with it.

Here are some pics.