This very nearly became
cat food. There's a wee furry beast living with me who
decided one day that he fancied a bit of fine french dining.
"Ah, perhaps monsieur would like a thin waffer of
Morane stabilizer deeped in a delicate coating du Polly
Scale, non? C'est tres bien. Et bon appetit, monsieur
chat."
And thus Keif was a very
unpopular furry little fellow for many a day afterward.
One stabilizer was chewed in half and the other one was
missing completely. Eyeing my trusty modelling knife,
and without relying on a preliminary cat scan (pun intended),
I gave serious consideration to performing emergency surgery
right then and there, but as it turned out the missing
tailplane was in the vacuum cleaner courtesy of the (ex)
wife. It's a conspiracy I tell ya!
The Morane languished on
my workbench for several months while I pondered the feasibility
of cat-apults. Sans parachute, I might add.
Eventually I grafted on
a bit of plastic and a few ribs from stretched sprue to
repair the damaged tailplane and finished the Morane.
Nice little kit and quite easy to build. It's even house
trained and doesn't chew on the other models in the display
case.
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