Remember this?

Well, I've dusted off the idea and am now doing this.

My son is learning CAD as part of his engineering schoolwork, so I got a copy of Solid Works and am using this model as a test for teaching myself! So far so good.
I always wanted to have a hollow version of my dropship so that I could deploy troops and vehicles from inside. This model is the same size as the physical one, and accomodates my old crow scout cars.
The design i've chosen is a bit of a pain as the height of the rear door becomes the limiting factor in getting vehicles in. SO to do anything bigger will require a MUCH bigger hull. I'm hoping to be able to scale the model up. The good news is that the design is very unlikely to accomodate walkers as they're too tall!!
The hope is that I'll be able to laser cut this out of ply/MDF to make the wooden skeleton/carcass you see here and then clad it in Lasercut styrene panels as the original is.