Terran Space: SpaceRider - Lightwave3d & obj formats

Terran Space: SpaceRider a Frigate formally part of the Terran Alliance
A little information about this design and the characters that inhabit it, it appeared as the main ship in several comics during the 1980s in the UK and Ireland with "Starhawk" first in "The Crunch" before transferring to another comic title better known to my generation as Hotspur and later appeared in Starblazer, Victor, Spike and (as ‘Young Starhawk’) Buddy, as well as three Hotspur annuals, these are well-known comics to my generation if you grew up in UK and Ireland.

 I always liked this design and I am sure Star Wars Millennium Falcon inspired it, it is not the most interesting name for a ship.
So I have started calling it "Star Strider" AND "Sun Strider" or even calling the ship "Starhawk" not fixed on either at the moment, as with all my models I build them to scale. my biggest addition is defining the location of the cockpit.

Heroes:
Sol Rynn, alias Starhawk, was a roving lawman who brought justice to the scattered worlds of the slowly disintegrating Terran Empire in the 26th century AD, along with his trusty robot sidekick, Droid. They rode in a ship called the Space Rider ^ and answered SOS calls sent out using special SOS cards of Rynn’s design,

How do those cards get around? I don’t know if it was ever explained.?

I discovered the character in Starblazer on the cover by one of my favourite artists Ian Kennedy, but it was the ship that stood out, this is my interpretation of that design. 

As its lightwave3d the model is in layers:

1:Space-Rider
2:Hatches Closed (These are the side ramps like the MFalcon for crews to enter/exit)
3:Hatch Starboard Open (As it says, SB Ramp is open, while the Port side Ramp is closed)
4:Hatch Portside Open (the reverse of the above, I never made a corridor if there is interest I will)
5:Landing Gear Closed
6:Landing Gear Open (and Landing Gear extended)
7:Top Stabilizers Up (for atmospheric flight)
8:Top Stabilizers Down (also allows the rotating laser cannon clearance when firing off to the aft sides).
9:Top Cannons (this canon has its "own" layer so it can at least rotate 360, but that's it)
10:Lower Cannons (This canon also has its "own" layer, but using a Null in LightWave3d scene file allows me to give its "own" rotation centre so it can also rotate). 

The OBJ files reflect the layers arrangement of Lightwave3d 

Terran Space: SpaceRider- Lightwave3d & obj formats