POTW for June 17th 2011

[peter taft]

And another week flies bye...... What can one say to this weeks POTW ? One could heap lots of superlatives here, and to find one that sums up this build of the Mercury Capsule in 1/4 Scale is very, VERY hard to do ! will W O W :eek: go far enough, i doubt it, but i guess you guys will put plenty here for the grand builder CLOSET ASTRONAUT - Mark. Mark has made this sooooooo well, and with such dedication, it is totally amazing. The detail, all derived from plenty of research and a love of this era put Mark in the right ZONE to complete the task. Mark, please accept this award from all the Lads 'n' Lasses here on PM DOT COM, and have a great week admiring yourself {and your model of course} on the front page - WE WILL ;):)

The Full Story Here : http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/pasa-paper-aeronautical-space-administration/13124-journey-begins-1-4-mercury-capsule.html

[Spaceguy5]

Very, very well deserved.

[Zathros]

Excellent and well deserving. Any museum in the world would be happy to have such a piece representative of a vital period of the manned space saga.:)

[richkat]

FANTASTIC!!....Rich

[Fishcarver]

EXCELLENT!!

Jim

[cdavenport]

totally awesome!

[whulsey]

Whoa! Had been following this for awhile then had lost track of it. When back and went through the entire thread. EXCELLENT FINISH!!

[ghshinn]

What a master modeler in paper can do! Great work and well deserved recognition.

Garland

[Zathros]

I said to my son, Check this out!", my smart ass'd 11 year old son looked at the picture and said "Nice Shirt!", I was caught by surprise and said, 'Not the shirt, the model", to which he replied, "take it easy Dad, I was just joking, but it is a nice shirt!".

[Rubenandres77]

Wonderful model. Very well deserved recognition!

[SCEtoAUX]

Very nice looking. You could fit a cat in there.;)

[opalmox]

An awesome build that I had been following, and very well deserved recognition.

[paulhbell]

Amazing, well done Mark.

[doctormax]

Thats really cool. some nice models in the background as well.

[The Orange]

What a journey it must have been to build that beast! I enjoyed watching the build thread unfold, and it really turned out to be quite a piece.

[rixtoys]

WOW that is very impressive. Great job !!

[mbauer]

Very nicely done build!!

Lots of ink there!

Best regards,
Mike Bauer

[mperdue]

Great build! I'm envious.

[OhioMike]

Outstanding build sir!!!!!

[Cybermac]

Superb!

A lot of great work!

Remembers me a movie: 'Right stuff' with E.Harris and D.Quaid...
'Who gonna be zee first in space, zee man? or zee monkee?':)