Surveyor 388

Surveyor 388 is interesting for several reasons. It has several "canopies" that are not used as canopies, a decal that is, and it has a half of a plastic bird feeder that I have used the other half of on many ships.

The main body is just a tube between a B-25 nose and a makeup container (the thick, rounded-edge cylinder in the back). There are lots of little tubes, such as the tan 1/35 scale long tank barrel on top near the engines, and the rest of that barrel under the orange computer connector. There are aircraft drop tanks and plastic test-tubes, random curved parts, sections of wings, etc., etc. Engines are Standard No7's from Amazon.

There is also a big, fat, pregnant pink belly, a plastic bird feeder. I've used the clear part on many ships, such as the aft fuselage of the Rokso Space-Superiority Fighter, the Scorpio, and the Kenworth Container Freighter, JP Systems Freightline. Most notably, it was the "head" of the 2018 Anthropomorphic Freighter. By my count, I should have two more of those pink things stashed away somewhere, awaiting similar notoriety.

Also note that the wings survived horizontal placement until the final painting stage.

Testing with a new camera and, say, turn the ship upside-down, invert the wings, paint the now three yellow windows black, and replace the windscreens, and it still looks pretty good! Of course, after all the trouble I went through doing something similar to Corvette 2 I'm going to quit while I'm still ahead.