What a day...

This ended up being what will probably be the cleanest styrene cut I make...

Those bolts are gone now. Replaced with countersunk screws.

Skirt arrived! Purty!

This is where things get ugly. 

No fit.

No fit (leg "box" to the frame....

If you look carefully above, You'll see the foot "box"/assembly is actually in place inside the middle supports of the A&A frame. You'll also see the sides have actually been trimmed about halfway up, and halfway across. (more on that below.)  It's ugly, but with the added spacers (lighter wood) on the sides, this thing is sitting in there with a friction fit while I take a picture of it.

Unfortunately that weakens the box's integrity, so I added a support in each corner and it feels very very sturdy now. Screwed from the top and from the left.
 

If you look toward the bottom left you see where it becomes thinner so that the box can fit partly through the skirt.  The four blocks of wood appear to line up with the holes around the boards sticking out at the bottom of the A&A frame. Gotta wait for the JB Weld to set, and we'll see how that goes tomorrow.

Also done today:

Batteries, bought. Chargers, bought. Ended up getting 2 7AH 12V batteries like you'd find in a UPS or in this case, a deer feeder!

Also got a rechargeable 6V lantern-type battery. I haven't seen one of these before, but it should handle the RC receiver and the dome lighting.