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You did an outstanding job on that corvette, congratulations! I always wondered how this kit looked like, and a few others from Palmer. But pictures like this are a rare find!
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So I just discovered recently the existence of these Palmer Plastics model kits. I noticed they also with PSM as their logo as seen in the boxart below, but can't be found when searching for PSM 1/25, at least that's my experience.
I was immediatelly captured by their box art. I see they really put the extra mile in making the cars look as slick and low as they could, sporty so to speak, some epic even. I love their box arts. There were especially two box arts I fell in love with, The King Of The Road stingray corvette from the late 60s and the "Blow Your Mind" Vette. I wanted to get these kits, but to my surprise they were nowhere to be found, I guess they are both pretty rare. But I was curious how they might have looked, based on their box art.And while I couldn't find any information about the King of the reoad kit, apart a small box art picture posted on scalemates, I managed to find a picture of what's in the box of the "Blow your mind" vette on worthpoint. I thought the kit parts on the sprues and the body looked pretty decent. But this was pretty much the only Palmer Plastics model of which I have seen the contents of the box. So reading this thread I was totally unaware that these kits were so trashy, also as we see in the video.
Anyway, I just wanted to share a few words and the 2 boy arts I love so much, and also another one I find cute.
the contents of the box, can be seen here: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/blow-mind-corvette-funny-car-1960s-25-474773116
And just today, when searching for the worthpoint page I found something precious, right on this forum, someone restored a Blow You Mind vette, and did an outstanding job on it, I might add. It looks very nice, except minus the rear are too big for my taste.
So, if you might have missed this post, here is the link http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/155998-yes-its-a-palmer71-corvette/
Palmer model kit history?
in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Posted · Edited by abysss
Yes I've read somewhere along the way that some of the palmer models were later sold as Lindberg kits. But I also saw some old AMT kits that have cover art like Palmer's or very similar.
like this one