Loading Cargo
Maintaining functionality was very important to me in making these sets. Compromise was often necessary in making the functionality work. The manner in which the back of the Space Cruiser opens is a perfect example.
If you look, you can see that the two halves of the real fuselage are asymmetrical. On side is two studs wide while the other is only one. In addition, because the walls of the storage compartment are, proportionally, twice as thick, the cargo crate must fit in the rear of the ship lengthwise front to back, rather than side to side as it does in the original set. What's important however, is that the crate does fit in the back.
Loading Cargo
Maintaining functionality was very important to me in making these sets. Compromise was often necessary in making the functionality work. The manner in which the back of the Space Cruiser opens is a perfect example.
If you look, you can see that the two halves of the real fuselage are asymmetrical. On side is two studs wide while the other is only one. In addition, because the walls of the storage compartment are, proportionally, twice as thick, the cargo crate must fit in the rear of the ship lengthwise front to back, rather than side to side as it does in the original set. What's important however, is that the crate does fit in the back.