Been a fan of the Palmer Plastics spaceman series since the first instant I saw em -- The astronauts have a Gemini Program look to them, and are wearing actual pressure suits rather than skin-tight flight suit. I like how chunky they are compared to their better known bean-pole scrawny MPC/Hong Kong contemporaries. Made in the USA for a change! And telling of their likely age is that the examples I've seen only appear garbed for flight, not for lunar surface EVA, dating them 1968 or earlier (which I believe is when the Palmer factory went up in smoke). I've seen them as a bagged set with marvelous header card, a couple of space capsule pieces and a Space Chimp or three.
Painted guy on the end is interesting, as his plastic looks to be of a very different hue of yellow. If a kid did that he/she was good, and if the factory did that I want more, though I have never seen other painted examples.
Palmer figures did not have base plates to make sure they stand up and play wear has put some of mine off-balance. So most of these have a little dab of sticky putty on their boot soles for the pix session.
YO!
Some may end up in collage pieces, though mostly they are for diorama picture setups.
Heh ... Aww. Doesn't look too happy. Must have missed out on John Young's corned beef sandwich. Or maybe this is Captain Young testifying before the congressional committee of stuffed shirts who investigated the incident ... ?? A simple reprimand would have sufficed. He cleaned up his act too. Flew one of every US made manned spaceflight variants to date other than the Mercury Program vehicles. The Astronaut's Astronaut.
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