Junkman

Because they weren't in some stupid Army, or some bloody war. Had they been, they would be made. In 1/35 scale.

I think Dean Milano had quite a few of them in his kit museum.

Yeah, with Palmer I really wonder why they bothered.

So let's slap it onto a nondescript box and photoshop a shadow around it? My idea of packaging art is vastly less half arsed. Also, my idea of a well built kit is a less shonky placement of the front axle.

Another pearl from Revell:

Or this:

Have a load of this:

Yeah, and they could issue it with even worse box art for added hilarity.

You could outcrazy yourself by cutting your model apart and inserting that extension piece you kept all these decades.

Where did I put...what was it I'm actually looking for?

Those unbreakable Cobra thingies are marvellously horrible. Much envy.

Japan has a long tradition of 1/20 scale kits and not only F1 GP cars. There has been a plethora of Japanese (and some imported) cars kitted in 1/20 scale in the 70s and 80s. However, in no other scale true brilliance and total rubbish were so close together. There basically was no middle ground. They were either excellent, or total tosh.

I find it uninspiring, bleak and depressing. Now what?