1/24 Sigma 7 ("Are you a Turtle?")

[umtutsut]

Gang,

Here's my latest: a 1/24 Sigma 7 Mercury spacecraft from Delta 7 Studios. Dan Shippey offered this kit as a freebie a couple years back, but unfortunately, it's no longer available on the site.

Only mod I did was to replace the printed crew window with clear plastic; I backed it with a "black box" made from card. I posed the Mercury spacecraft with a 120mm (1/12) Mercury astronaut figure I painted about 10 years ago.



Here's a closer view of the spacecraft body and retropack.



A closeup of "Wally Schirra." I modified the figure slightly to better represent Wally, but the facial features are kinda generic. The unmodified figure appeared in the Fine Scale Modeler Readers Gallery in November 2003.



Sorry for the ratty quality of the pix. I took them with my cellphone because I no longer have a digital camera. (Santa, are you reading this...?)

Les (Friendly Airplane Asylum & ex-NASA flack)

[dhanners]

Very nice build and display. Thanks for sharing the photos.

Had drinks with Schirra once. Nice guy. It only took about 30 seconds to see, though, that he indeed had "The Right Stuff."

[Paper Kosmonaut]

Les, the Sigma 7 looks very pretty. The guy next to it is a very nice addition.
btw, I love the turtle-reference. (-:

And Dave, a drink with Schirra?! Wow, you lucky man!

[Maltedfalcon]

Love it!
Wally really makes the display