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Trapped cat ship wreck!

MarinerR

MarinerR

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After several hundred hours my HMS Fly was almost complete saving one piece of running rigging. Yesterday I enjoyed a beautifully sunny Bank Ho
 
You are right there certainly is!

After several hundred hours my HMS Fly, was almost complete save for one piece of running rigging. However, fate had other ideas! Yesterday was a beautifully sunny Bank Holiday in the UK, which we enjoyed at a friends house. However, on my return I entered my garage/workshop to find my pride and joy wrecked and hanging from the handle of a vice. I never did see the culprit, but it had left its calling card in the middle of the garage floor, so there is no doubt I had apparently accidentally locked one of the neighbourhood cats in the garage and in its panic the wreck occurred.:eek::eek: I had been looking forward to a new project, but it looks as if it has been chosen for me! Sorry about the quality of the image, but I think you get the general idea.

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I feel your pain and frustration. Many of us have had similar disasters, but in my case it was our children being children about 40 years ago. I never knew a little boy (7 years old) throwing a shoe at his brother (that missed him) could cause so much damage to a model, which it did not miss. I told them they were both grounded until they were 18 years old. 1756205754187.png
 
MarinerR said:
You are right there certainly is!

After several hundred hours my HMS Fly, was almost complete save for one piece of running rigging. However, fate had other ideas! Yesterday was a beautifully sunny Bank Holiday in the UK, which we enjoyed at a friends house. However, on my return I entered my garage/workshop to find my pride and joy wrecked and hanging from the handle of a vice. I never did see the culprit, but it had left its calling card in the middle of the garage floor, so there is no doubt I had apparently accidentally locked one of the neighbourhood cats in the garage and in its panic the wreck occurred.:eek::eek: I had been looking forward to a new project, but it looks as if it has been chosen for me! Sorry about the quality of the image, but I think you get the general idea.

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MarinerR said:
You are right there certainly is!

After several hundred hours my HMS Fly, was almost complete save for one piece of running rigging. However, fate had other ideas! Yesterday was a beautifully sunny Bank Holiday in the UK, which we enjoyed at a friends house. However, on my return I entered my garage/workshop to find my pride and joy wrecked and hanging from the handle of a vice. I never did see the culprit, but it had left its calling card in the middle of the garage floor, so there is no doubt I had apparently accidentally locked one of the neighbourhood cats in the garage and in its panic the wreck occurred.:eek::eek: I had been looking forward to a new project, but it looks as if it has been chosen for me! Sorry about the quality of the image, but I think you get the general idea.

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I'm so sorry, mate. I know your bitterness... Mothers are as deadly as cats to our hobby. Anyway, it looks like damages just occurred to rig and cap-rails, then my guess is they are quite manageable. Cheers, Alberto.
 
Well you could display the ship as a survivor of heavy storms at sea, or from a battle with the foe!

Good luck with what you decide to do with the ship, hopefully a short restoration could be in order, and now that you know what has to be done, it may be easier and quicker.

As for the cat, well I will keep my opinions to myself on that one.
 
AllanKP69 said:
I feel your pain and frustration. Many of us have had similar disasters, but in my case it was our children being children about 40 years ago. I never knew a little boy (7 years old) throwing a shoe at his brother (that missed him) could cause so much damage to a model, which it did not miss. I told them they were both grounded until they were 18 years old. View attachment 540052
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A very impressive picture .occasionally i will use it as a sticker wiyh your permission.
I don’t think that the locked one had the same feelings
 
I have occasionally broken a mast or, more often, a bowsprit. With care to avoid tangling the rigging it will go back in place. The way your fore topmast has broken looks as though it will present a good area for gluing. An alternative is to cut a short length of brass tube to span a break. Painted black it looks like an authentic reinforcement. Good luck!
 
@MarinerR, this is a lot of rigging... HOWEVER. I personally won't try to fix it. WHY? This still look fantastic as a distressed ship. In fact, it would be hard to reproduce if you wanted it. The ship is now telling a FANTASTIC story, both real life and fiction.

I vote that you keep it as such!! Cheers,
 
I'm sure there are several stories around within our membership equally as sad involving cats, dogs, birds etc. Mine comes from a small white Netherland Bunny Rabbit we had as a family pet. The little rabbit could jump so high we thought he had wings. He was able to jump from the floor to a stool and on to my work bench where my model of the Bluenose was under construction. Rabbits love to chew things and by the time he was done with my model three quarters of the bulwark had been destroyed.:mad:
 
MarinerR said:
You are right there certainly is!

After several hundred hours my HMS Fly, was almost complete save for one piece of running rigging. However, fate had other ideas! Yesterday was a beautifully sunny Bank Holiday in the UK, which we enjoyed at a friends house. However, on my return I entered my garage/workshop to find my pride and joy wrecked and hanging from the handle of a vice. I never did see the culprit, but it had left its calling card in the middle of the garage floor, so there is no doubt I had apparently accidentally locked one of the neighbourhood cats in the garage and in its panic the wreck occurred.:eek::eek: I had been looking forward to a new project, but it looks as if it has been chosen for me! Sorry about the quality of the image, but I think you get the general idea.

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Damn mate. That's a lot of damage. Hope you can salvage her.
I've had two models fall foul of our cat now; they really hate ships for some reason. ;-)
 
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