North-West, South Africa
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 12:52 AM UTC
Hi
Had a bit of a disaster yesterday when I got home. My cat got onto my workbench and seriously destroyed the Tiger I was working on. He must have pushed it from the bench as it was in pieces on the floor.
All the internal bits and bobs have come unstuck but worst of all the seams which I had been working on for the past two weeks on the top deck and the glasis where completely destroyed. The joint on the glasis has sheared at the on end and the front drivers plate is jutting up at a angle while the decking broke completely free. The mess on the decking is compounded by the fact that I had to shim up the joint between the deck and the chasis.
What am I to do, chuck it in a box and forget about it or try and fix it? What do you guys think.
Can't blaim the critter though coz the baas forgot to close the door.
Vorster
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North Carolina, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 01:49 AM UTC
From my limited experience, I'd say put it in box for later, when you need a "destroyed" Tiger for a dio. Or. You could just go ahead and build it right now as a destroyed tank. From your description, it sounds like there is some extensive damage that would be hard to repair.
Funny, my wife's cat leaves my bench alone, if I could just get my kids and their friends to do the same...
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Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 01:57 AM UTC
You could always start a tank wreckage dio? A burnt out Tiger?
Alternatively, check out this article on
Osprey about
the German use of tank turrets as fixed fortifications. Maybe you'll get a few ideas for using the leftovers in something like this...
Hope that was reason enought to have a
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England - West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 02:08 AM UTC
Theres just so many benefits to hamsters...
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 02:13 AM UTC
My cat likes to "help" when I build, he'll jump up onto my desk and just sit there staring at all the pieces. I escort him to the floor, and then he gets back at me. He really likes figures, and there has been more than one occasion where I've seen him come out of my room with one in his mouth. After chasing him all over hell's acre, I finally manage to get it away from him. A little filler and sanding fixes up the teeth marks...*sigh*... :-)
North-West, South Africa
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 02:13 AM UTC
thanx guys. The model will most probably never be used in such a instance as I have lost interest in all things German after I became a IDF supporter. As the Tiger did not see combat against the IDF, unlike the PzKpfw IV and Stug IV, it will most probably stay in the box while the Magachs, Merkavas and Sho'ts get build in numbers.
But thanx again anyway. By the way my cat's name is Sprocket. Hell of a name for the cat of a self professed Treadhead.
Vorster
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North-West, South Africa
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 02:18 AM UTC
Addendum
For all the non South Africans Baas is the afrikaans word for master or boss. Forgot I had an internasional audiance.
Vorster
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning - after my first coffey and smoke of course.
Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 02:23 AM UTC
Dont worry Vorster
you are not alone i had that experience before, i got a puppy who really likes to see the models especially when he can steal it on my bench and play with his teeth. he already ruined two models so far
maybe next time u can lock ur door, so ur cat cant come to ur room again
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 02:48 AM UTC
My story is sort of the same thing but instead of a pet, it was my wife's youngest son (1½ yrs old then). I was dating her and she had three kids ages 5, 3 and the 1 year old. I had built a helicopter model (Monogram's Blue Thunder) and was just about done with it (needed to install the canopy). I left it up high on top of the microwave oven that was on the kitchen counter.
It was high enough so that he couldn't reach it and he did not have the ability to climb the counter. He did have this little scooter thing and when no one was watching, he wheeled it up to the edge of the counter, stood on it and promptly busted the model into numerous pieces. All in about 3 seconds.
He's 15 now and still breaks things, they're just bigger and more expensive. He is the most destructive child my wife has had (we had three more kids after marrying, six in all). He breaks things that you wouldn't think would break under normal usage.
He asks for a cell phone, I laugh profusely. When he mentions driving, I roll on the floor holding my side and laughing so hard my eyes water.
Florida, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 03:20 AM UTC
There is a permanent solution to this problem. The nearest chinese restaurant. (btw...I hate cats)
"Once a Patricia, Always a Patricia"
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 03:27 AM UTC
When I was stationed in Texas, the Waco radio station played a song to the tune of Cat in the Cradle called Cat in the Kettle. Very funny.
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~will2/catkettle.htmlFlorida, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 03:31 AM UTC
I agree, build the Tiger as a knocked out tank, get rid of the cat. Cats are useless, get a dog instead. I too hate cats, nasty little furballs.
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Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 06:04 AM UTC
I too have a kat..big and lazy. He leaves my workbench alone. He prefers sleeping.
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-me-
Indiana, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 06:21 AM UTC
Rob, the story about the son driving is too funny. Haven't laughed that hard in some time. My step son is 16 and a half. He has already totaled one car and is driving his second now, probably into parked cars.
Surely you have access to something wife's son could drive and not destroy...
Shaun
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Indiana, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 06:39 AM UTC
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There is a permanent solution to this problem. The nearest chinese restaurant. (btw...I hate cats)
OMG!
Anyway, we all deal with this problem. My cat loves my antennas (braided and twisted wire), but hasn't done much to my other detailed parts. I only have to worry if it gets on the floor. I have suspected that she gets up on the bench in the night, but have not confirmed it (nor do I care enough to find out as nothing permanent has been done...yet). My evidence is small strains of cat hair and a lack of water in certain cups (usually cleaning or decal water cups).
My worst problem actually came from my sister when I was 7 (she was 4ish at the time). She decided to play "war" with a 1/72 A-10 that I had built in my youth. It was one of those models that everyone built when they were a kid that had no paint, no decals, covered in glue (snap-tite or not), and is a nastalgic joke to look at 10 years later, so I didn't really care too much in the end.
Jeff
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Florida, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 06:53 AM UTC
One of my favorite Al Yankovic songs Rob.
"Once a Patricia, Always a Patricia"
Grumpyoldman
ConsigliereFlorida, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 09:11 AM UTC
Nearly 3 weeks away from home, and the only thing my fuzzy "Tinkerbell" touched was a little metal tray laying on the work bench, spilling a few tiny spare parts...... LOL.....
What a wonderful cat..... rather eat and sleep than investigate the model bench..... now it Rambo was allowed in that room.... it would have been a different story...... :-) :-) :-)
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England - East Anglia, United Kingdom
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 09:25 AM UTC
Well i have a little brother, who just loves to play with all my models and insists on painting them when i am not there!! I dont know how he gets the lids of the tins but he does manage.
Even if im there all you hear is "can i help paint?" or "what are you doing? whats that bit for?"
Best thing is, he tells me off for using a sharp knife and keeps telling me to be really careful or i will "cut off my arm"
New Jersey, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 01:53 PM UTC
I hate cats but I don't hate cats, why is it that some [ I said some ] people can open their back door and let their cat out so it can run free and sh*t in my horseshoe pits, but if I let my Lab run free and tear up the neighbors garbage and leave a major loaf next to their Virgin Mary lawn statue my dog is a criminal. My dog does not run free I'm responsible for his defications and besides how do the neighbors know its not me dumping on their precsious Kentucky Blue Grass. Jail [ origional draft was death ] to cats owned by irrisponsible owners or should I say jail for owners that let their cats run free and crap in my kids sand box should be addresed. Sorry for the rant but I'm tired of wiping cat sh*t off my hands before I try and toss a horseshoe. I mean I don't let my pet hippo crap on my next door neighbors driveway because, volumewise it would be a problem-duh- If you can't be a responsible pet owner you shouldn't be a pet owner. Sorry once again but where I live there is no room for irrisponsible pet owners either your responsible for your pets or they most often don't come home - Cheyenne- Oh by the way I'm considering retiring and moving to east Jesus in Pensultucky to leave the Fox News race.
Quebec, Canada
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 02:21 PM UTC
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He's 15 now and still breaks things, they're just bigger and more expensive. He is the most destructive child my wife has had (we had three more kids after marrying, six in all). He breaks things that you wouldn't think would break under normal usage.
DAD!
is this you? lol...o wait, i dotn have so many brothers and sisters! thank god... i
when mom mentions having another kid lol
my dog ate one or two kits when she was a pup... but shes so cute i cant realy blame her, until she ate my favriote pair of shoes! and went in my room to eat my patch!
but ive been worse than him: drop my airbrush, and bend the nozzle and needle, drop my tank, drop my figure.... dril a hole in a base, and the base goes spining 360' and hits a figure which knocks over and falls on the floor plenty of misadventures... iam just not a lucky guy!
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Kansas, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 02:55 PM UTC
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Theres just so many benefits to hamsters...
ROFLMAO
:-) :-) :-) :-)
That is, until they procreate! :-) :-)
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North-West, South Africa
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 06:23 PM UTC
Hi All
Thanx for all the replies. I don't think the cat wil be turned into soup anytime soon - the missus will have my ....
Well I think you get the picture.
Dogs well I would rather wan't one too but the flat is just too small and I want a dog that is just as mean as it's owner.
Kids well I have my own problems with them. I live in Flat for students in a school hostel and the little beasts have me constantly swearing like a proper South African miner
(apperently they are worst than a sailor or a marine DI).
O well in the wise words of Forest Gump: "It happens"
Once again thanxs for the replies.
Vorster
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning - after my first coffey and smoke of course.
Visayas, Philippines
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 08:15 PM UTC
Well, in one of the more "unknown" stories:
One unnamed US GI was valiantly trying to protect Bastogne from Germans trying to infiltrate the city.
When suddenly....
The Germans unleashed their secret weapon!
....a huge big, white hairy monster, about six or seven times the size of the ruins that the GI was hiding! The result of a secret genetic mutation project of the Nazis perhaps?
The GI tried to defend himself by shooting with his Garand but it was too late. Mercilessly, the monster chomped off the poor soldier's head and arms.
He was found two hours later and he was given the proper burial rights
Here is the evil Nazi monster:
Angela
(Phone rings in a taxi company)
Taxi company: "Hello, "
Passenger-to-be: "I'd like a taxi"
Taxi company: "Where do you need the cab?"
Passenger-to-be: "At my home."
Taxi Company: "Where is your home?"
Pasenger-to-be: "I don't give out my address."
Putrajaya, Malaysia
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 08:40 PM UTC
Quoted Text
Hi
Had a bit of a disaster yesterday when I got home. My cat got onto my workbench and seriously destroyed the Tiger I was working on. He must have pushed it from the bench as it was in pieces on the floor. All the internal bits and bobs have come unstuck but worst of all the seams which I had been working on for the past two weeks on the top deck and the glasis where completely destroyed. The joint on the glasis has sheared at the on end and the front drivers plate is jutting up at a angle while the decking broke completely free. The mess on the decking is compounded by the fact that I had to shim up the joint between the deck and the chasis.
What am I to do, chuck it in a box and forget about it or try and fix it? What do you guys think.
Can't blaim the critter though coz the baas forgot to close the door.
Vorster
Hello Vorster..
i have the same incident once...back when i live with my sister,,,she has a few cats and kitten also..one evening when i get back home i realised that the kitten were trapped in my bedroom (they must have entered thru ventilation hole just above their cage.) they destroyed almost every models on the desk . That was so furstrating knowing that u best model got destroyed by 'someone' that u trust.!!
another near missed incident was last month when the neigbour cat accidently got into the room at 4 am in the morning (i forgot to close window) ..lucky my cat sensor in the brain could tell..i went down at saw she's lying on my T34 .... that was really a near missed..afterthat i will make sure that my windows are always closed.
The more i know, the less I understand!!!!
