Excellent work Michael, I think this Atomic City Mercury Capsule Kit is one of the best Real Space Models around, there certainly aren't many in that scale-- and you can do a lot with it. Do you plan to scratch build the rest of the Atlas Booster?

Ive always thought Kitmaker has the Real Space section in the wrong spot-- it should be over on the Aeroscale site.
VR, Russ

Nice work Michael.

Thank you John!

Michael

Well done Michael. A fitting salute to John Glenn.

Thanks Jim!

Michael

That looks awesome, Michael.

Jim

And here's the finished product! Not too bad for having taken all this time to finish.



Tight fit in there:



The retro package:



The escape tower removed and the spoiler deployed (it's on a hinge in the kit):



And the instrument package in the nose:



All it all, not a kit for beginners due to the somewhat vague instructions and unclear placement for many of the parts, but quite a model when finished. I think it's a fitting tribute to John Glenn and the other Mercury pioneers. God speed John Glenn. Cue the theme to The Right Stuff...

Michael

I picked it back up a couple of weeks ago and started from where I'd left off.

The astronaut in the cabin. The kit didn't come with NASA or name plate decals for the suit so I had to print some on plain paper, cut them out, and glue them on. You can hardly see them, but they're there:



Figure painting is not, I'm afraid, my forte.



The various subassemblies ready to go together. The stripe decals on the retro package were, well, tedious. But they got done!



Michael

I started the Atomic City 1/12 Project Mercury kit some years ago for a campaign here on ModelGeek but for some reason never finished. When John Glenn passed away I figured it was time to bring it out and get it done, so I finished it for the Hanger Queen campaign on AeroScale. But I thought I'd post some pics here as well.

The almost unstarted kit (guess I started painting before I remembered to take pictures):



The basic cabin. The instrument panel is from a later flight, but I didn't have the umph to rebuild it. The wiring is mine since I knew it would be visible through the open hatch:





This is basically where I left off:



Next, on to the finish...

Michael