SteveS,
mighty fine work there, pilgrim. I am writing to suggest a possible option as an improvement to the ramp angle. FYI, I’ve been reverse engineering the “5- footer” hull for many, many years with the idea of scaling it up to “full size”, whatever it would end up being, so as to fit the interior as well…at least on paper if not in the flesh. Then, still a long time ago, I learned Bob Brown was essentially doing the same thing, and arrived at the now famous 114' length. by that time, I had enough particulars sorted out to determine that it was a very good estimation, and subsequently have worked toward that number. I am well aware the interior will not fit as shown on screen, though I have minimized the errors to a certain level (or levels, since I have various geometry options). One of the things I did to lower the ramp angle was to maintain the “low slung” set exterior height for the bottom of the ship, even though my version would otherwise be bigger than the set. The official landing gear blueprint shows a height of 5' from the “ground” to the bottom of the hull box, a very useful and solid number. Using this figure, I get a reasonable “ramp entry” height compared to the movies. The opening is a little taller, though not too much (IMO). I felt this was an important feature to maintain since the ramp entry point got a lot of screen time with events such as Chewie not making it up the ramp right away because he forgot C3PO was on his back and kept smacking the droid’s head on the entry bulkhead. Of course, you don’t have to do this, but it might improve things at least somewhat.
Mark