The Ju-388K is officially as done as it is going to get for the present. I never finish a model, we just reach a truce at some point. Sharp eyes will note that something looks slightly odd about the engine air inlets, I had already taken the photos and put the model in the display cabinet by the time I realized I had forgotten to darken up those suckers so Corel did the job. No other places got such treatment. The truth is this model has all of its little bitty resin thingies hanging out now, and I being a clumsy oaf and wanting to get on to my 1/32 K5054, well, it is staying in the display cabinet until I get more ambition and whatever else. It's the first all resin kit I've built, and while such a kit does have its advantages, handling the finished model is not one of them. It came out well, considering my abilities and I am happy to have a model of the Ju-388 in my collection. The canopy area was a particular area of concern, but it seems to look fine. The cockpit is kind of the focal point of the airplane with all that glass and framing.
I oversprayed the model with a bit of light grey mixed with Tamiya flat base and Future, and then did a little dirtying up aft of the exhaust (Tamiya Smoke) and cowl flaps with pastels. After that I overcoated the whole thing with Testors flat. I think next time I will add light grey or white to the camouflage colors, because I didn't really get the fading I wanted this way, and it was too scary to push it any farther. My experiments were telling me that only a little bit more light grey in the mixture made for too much. I didn't do any washes as the panel lines seem to have plenty of emphasis, and I didn't do any chipping because none of the pictures I've found of the Ju-388's really showed any aluminum or other colors peeking out. Perhaps they were not too used by the time they had no more gas to fly on.
