It's amazing how many in this community remember that magazine & got inspiration from it.

A similar conversion by another person who was inspired by the Darren Peters mod, is documented on the Starship Modeler site.....John Martin's build in 2006:

 http://www.starshipmodeler.com/starwars/jm_mf.htm

 At the beginning of my build I was considering using the existing sidewalls & cutting them down, but eventually I scrapped them and made the walls from scratch

John