"The Return of the Carpet Monster"While the girlfriend was watching the Rugby this afternoon I decided to do a little modelling. I carefully cut the nose from one of the recent, relatively that is, Harrier Gr Mk 7/9 kits so that I could add the Aeris Gr 5 nose I received today. The 7/9 nose will go onto an older New generation Harrier kit by Airfix as the new nose if far better than the older kits rendition. The resultant model will be following on from an idea planted by some of Spinners recent postings of Japanese Harriers. Basically, what if Japan bought the ex RAF machines and gave them a small upgrade to integrate them with their own weapons systems?
While trimming excess resin away from the Aeries nose in an attempt to misname the amount of work needed to blend it into the contours of the kits nose I was interrupted by my cat joining me on the chair I was sat on, shortly followed by the cat moving to the table which although it concerned me was not much of a worry so I looked back at what I was doing when the next thing I know is the cat has attempted to climb over a pile of kits causing an avalanche!
Since managing to catch the sliding mass of model boxed without much actual deposition of their contents from their respective containers I have yet to find the nose I was working on
it appears for all intents and purposes to have diapered into thin air!
An area described by the length of my arm from my seat and including a corresponding area below the table has been searched too!
Perhaps the carpet Monster has claimed the part which disappoints me intently as I only got the part this morning
I do have a spare nose from a Hasegawa Gr 5 kit which I am not building as a Gr 5 due to the lack of aerials under the tail that I decided I would not model myself. I found the Hasegawa nose after I received the resin item which is typical
Perhaps it will turn up at some point, hope it's sooner rather than later though
Gondor
