Congratulations on working past the roadblocks you have encountered on this build! I had the same too-wide turret issue that you did on mine, but opted to modify the pivot point location and width of the boom to get around it. If I had your patience to (correctly) narrow my turret as you did on yours, it would have made for a better build, I think. Since the kit is designed to be used with a cast hull, (and I also changed mine to a welded one), it may be that we're the only people who will ever run into this problem. I like Christian's kits, and would have no hesitation buying this kit again if I were building it as he intended.