cats

[zoomie]

"Schrodinger's Cat"

Soooo...Pavlov had his dog, and Schrodinger had his cat...

Just goes to show that a scientist can be either a dog person or a cat person ?


Steve B, just wondering if it would help to build protective boxes for your completed models stored in your workshop? I recall reading about one of the well known FAC builders making a custom foamboard box for each of his models upon its completion. It would mean extra work for sure, but should give your planes cat-proof protection (fingers Xed). It's just a thought .


zoomie

[Steve Blanchard]

Zoomie,

It's not the finished models that I'm having an issue with the animals destroying, it's the builds in progress. I believe the protective boxes that you speak of are the ones that Chris Starleaf builds for his planes. Those are mainly for transport protection when going to contests, although I'm sure they would help quite a bit. I am in the process of building some boxes for just that reason. I prefer to have my room away from all that can do damage whether by accident or on purpose, so I like my closed up workshop. I always have no less than 60 models in the mix at any time so I won't be able to nor would I want to make boxes for all of them. Right now they hang by their tails from the ceiling in a storage area just off my workshop as well as all of my dime scale and peanut models on shelves in the workshop. I am always looking for more room. I make room sometimes by losing models OOS (Out Of Sight) or burning them in the yearly offering to Hung the God of thermals at our November FAC contest here in Connecticut. Either way, cats and planes are both great but in my experience not in the same room.

Steve

[davidchoate]

I once lost an RC plane to a "flyaway". I felt betrayed somehow. Like it left me on purpose.

[Steve Blanchard]

Fly aways are a wonderful happening free flight, as long as it's not a prized scale model. I've had that happen a few times. Just got it trimmed out and contest ready and poof! Thermal city. Gone gone gone.

[kittyfritters]

Zoomie,

It's not the finished models that I'm having an issue with the animals destroying, it's the builds in progress. I believe the protective boxes that you speak of are the ones that Chris Starleaf builds for his planes. Those are mainly for transport protection when going to contests, although I'm sure they would help quite a bit. I am in the process of building some boxes for just that reason. I prefer to have my room away from all that can do damage whether by accident or on purpose, so I like my closed up workshop. I always have no less than 60 models in the mix at any time so I won't be able to nor would I want to make boxes for all of them. Right now they hang by their tails from the ceiling in a storage area just off my workshop as well as all of my dime scale and peanut models on shelves in the workshop. I am always looking for more room. I make room sometimes by losing models OOS (Out Of Sight) or burning them in the yearly offering to Hung the God of thermals at our November FAC contest here in Connecticut. Either way, cats and planes are both great but in my experience not in the same room.

Steve

Some years back, I moved my model building efforts from the house to the garage. I found it necessary to build some rather sturdy boxes to protect my models in progress since I had a family of opossums living in my garage. I couldn't keep them out since they had access through the cat door and the garage was a protected space for my outside cats. As it turned out, the opossums were not that much of a problem since they had reached a modus vivendi with the cats and I had some amusing moments with them watching me work. However, they did cause me to construct some rather sturdy boxes.

Howard

[joecrouse]

Never had an issue with my dog chewing my models.

She will however steal a Computer hard drive off the storage shelf and decide that an aluminum shelled half pound Computer hard drive is amazingly fun to toss around the living room and chew on...

My dog... has the IQ of mayonnaise gone rancid.

[Steve Blanchard]

Joe,

That's why we have 2 dogs. The Mastif used to chew everything from toys to cell phones (Neither was smart, the dog or the phone thank God). We got the Pit mix and now they just chew each other. Oh yeah, and of course the cord wood I try and keep for our wood stove.

Steve

[Mitch]

We have 2 cats...Our female is out "hunting" while the male is home doing what he does best:

They generally leave my models alone, but when I noticed he was next to my finished Edge, there were a few puncture wounds in the tail...Nobody noticed at the Museum of Flight show, and that was after the Challenge flights.
Mitch

[Angie332]

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This guy can make short work of plastic or would. His name is Iggy we sometimes call him Godzilla he is a 5ft 8 lb iguana. He put holes in the wing of my p40. So, I painted them to look like bullet holes