The other night I was asleep in my room when my cat meowed at the door of my room to get out. I heard him, but due to lazyness… didn’t budge. After 10 minutes of random meows, my cat took action.
He jumped on my workbench and began rubbing against models I had on it. I awoke suddenly to a large CRASH!!! The cat knocked down two airplanes I had on display, and a tank I was working on.[:(!] After I sprang up out of bed I flicked on the light, looked at the damage, and threw the cat out (literally).
Luckily nothing but a few broken antennaes on the aircraft. As for the tank… the treads broke apart, the machine gun on top broke off, and the fuel barrels on back busted off.
As I sat in anger, I remembered when a model plane of mine was on display at a Remembrance Day ceremony. A kid picked it up, dropped it, and it smashed into a humdred un-recognizable peices.
I get paranoid whenever my cat is in my room, he’s jumped up on my workbench (well…desk) tons of times and rubs up against my models, paints jarrs of thinner and all that stuff, he even chewed up one of my brushes!
heh, some guys on the trains.com forums had the similar problems; appartly cats like to paw at the trains [:o]. they say cyan/cean (somthing like that) works to keep them away. I don’t have cats, just fish, and thye don’t give me any trouble. (if i found them attacking my models i would begin to worry) [:D]
well, my cat who died last july, was too old and senile to care about anythingin my room except for the bed. he was 17 years old when he died, and I never really modeled too much before that. my little bro, knows he can’t touch my models, and that about covers all my hazards!!! [:)]
um… ya , that would be Cyan as in cyan pepper. same stuff that comes in our OC/ (pepper) spray. Knowing what this feels like being sprayed in my face I think I could say it would do a good job keeping the kittens away. just dont rub your face after handling the model… AND WHAT EVER YOU DO DONT GO TO THE REST ROOM WITHOUT WASHING YOUR HANDS FIRST!!! bad bad bad… still have nightmares…
Forget the cats, I had a Parrot. He would grab anything he could and that little monster could fly where he wanted. I wasn’t building back then, but I once came home to a pile of formerly very expensive German pencils. He opened a box on my drafting table, proceeded to ‘shell’ the pencils like a peanut, and then actual fell asleep right there holding one. He couldn’t talk his way out of that one, the little…
I’m with you Gino, the worst my Lab does is nudge my arm when he wants some attention.
The only thing our cat ever did was chew on was a propeller I’d til then unknowingly dropped on the floor.My main grief comes from my two ferrets.Sometimes I bring some modelling stuff to a coffee table in our lounge room so I can sit on the floor and model and watch TV. [Best not mention last night when I spilt some super glue on the rug right when the wife happened to glance over. Caused a great wailing and gnashing of teeth…]
What the ferrets do is run up my back and leap onto the table and grab whatever they like the look of,a part, a paint brush or anything and then run all over the house with me right behind .Its all very hilarious until she makes under the fridge where I can’t reach. Keeps the wife entertained anyway…
Jeff
well, while i was building the dml panther d, i left the box with all the parts on the floor under my desk. BAD MOVE!!![:(]it was summer and my cat was shedding like crazy. she slept in the parts box and i awoke the next morning to find a layer of fur on the panther and the various parts. AHHHH!!! i then gave her a box of her own and she hasn’t messed up my models since.
Never had this problem with my cat. Mine just likes to sit on my lap while I work on the models. Does not want to be around me any other time. Think she likes the smell of the paint and glue.
