Ah, the cargo hold/lounge of the Falcon. I have to wonder what kind of reference was used by the model designers in this part. While it’s true that the set that the actors were on wasn’t actually intended to fit into the shell of the outside of the vehicle, it can in fact fit if done right. While the deep maintenance pits in the floor or the areas of the ceiling that can fit Chewy won’t work, the normal rooms generally can.
A lot of this model is just plain wrong though. There are areas missing, things badly out of proportion, etc. So, a lot of scratch building was needed here.

I started by getting the fantastic hold photo etch set from Paragrafix. This supplied me with the correct floor grate pattern, computer consoles and door arch borders.
I started the scratch building with the computer in the hold that Han sits at. The one that came with the kit was way too small and the wrong shape in general. The photo etch parts are meant to replace the upper and lower sections of the kit part, but that wasn’t enough to make it accurate to me. I got lots of references and then started cutting up the styrene card.

I didn’t take any pics of the process of building it. So here is the partial computer placed into the hold with the photo etch floor and the stock kit parts.

This has the seat I made, which seems to be a bit too big for this setting. I address that later on.

Here is what the end result turned out like. I’m pretty happy with it. Perfect, no. Better? Yeah.

The second pic shows the open panel that R2 uses to turn the hyperdrive back on in Empire Strikes Back. The third pic is of the computer I made and the one that came with the kit.

Next I’ll show the bench seat and the bunk behind it. The seats look good, but the bunk is scaled for a Jawa. I did not get pictures of the original kit part, but the basics are that the space above the seats had the room, but the bunk had too much space around it.
Here are the pics I took during the build process. This demonstrates that I work on all of these bits at the same time, tackling them as the mood strikes.
This shows a channel for lighting under the bench.

And there’s the completed bench and bunk, minus any weathering. I’m glad I added the seat belts. Those are WWII 1/48 scale and fit great. There are openings for lighting in the consoles by the bench as well as a screen in the bunk.