feeding the carpet monster

I've finally finished up the air group of my Trumpeter Hornet. 36 aircraft in all. Of those 36, 3 of the microscopic tailwheels and one canopy were inadvertantly tweezer-pulted into mid-air and sacrificed to the carpet monster.

The canopy I was able to easily reproduce using Kristal-Klear. No sweat there. But the tailwheels are another story. [:0]

I know what you're all thinking: the vacuum cleaner! With a piece of the wife's panty hose over the nozzle to retrieve them from that yawning dimensional gateway! Alas, no dice. Each of these tailwheels is slightly larger than a hydrogen atom, and is still lost forever.

A few tiny bits of strip styrene were the only answer. I fabricated something VERY loosely resembling a tailwheel assembly.

So where are these three tailwheel-less aircraft, you ask? Down on the opened-up hangar deck, of course, with their tailwheel areas carefully out of view!

So what kind of critical components have YOU fed to the carpet monster?
And how did you deal with it?
Paul