What's up with the engine block in the 1/25 scale Palmer Porsche 356 kit? It's a V8?

[peteski]

On 9/18/2025 at 10:14 AM, iamsuperdan said:

I want to get a hold of an executive or designer from Palmer Models (if any are still around) and interview them for the magazine. 

Would love to get to the bottom of their whole philosophy and business model.

And why they did the things they did.

And how many drugs were involved.

And if any of their design team had ever actually seen a real car before kitting it.

 

I suspect that many original Palmer execs or employees are no longer with us. Here is a trip down the memory lane:

 

Edited yesterday at 07:36 PM by peteski

[Bugatti Fan]

Besides the car kits I seem to remember that Palmer made some kits of field weaponry like gatling guns and cannon?

Edited yesterday at 07:12 AM by Bugatti Fan

[Beans]

5 hours ago, Bugatti Fan said:

Besides the car kits I seem to remember that Palmer made some kits of field weaponry like gatling guns and cannon?

At one time I built the gatling gun.  Started on the WWI howitzer but never finished it.  The fit of the parts was a definite challenge for me at the time.  Almost want to give it another shot.