I Hate Titanic Models !

TB,

     It is amazing how far a Cat can jump when a window they're sitting at is suddenly hit with a stream of water.  My last PuddyCat jumped up from the Window sil, landed on top of a lamp shade, (yea, the 4 spokes and the lamp did not fall over), jumped to the floor,  ran up the steps and hid under the bed.  She could hide under the bed in those days as there were no Models of the Titanic stored there.

   Nino

Hi;

 When I was in England a feline snuck aboard somehow . Plain and simple I think she was dumped aboard ! After all our anchorage was three miles out !

 Well , not having a cat on this ship , I didn't mind so much . Until she started giving orders  ! Just something about Siamese cats I guess .but , what surprised me most is she only had a nub where the tail was supposed to be . She didn't seem to mind though  .

 Her favorite spot ? On the console directly in Bridge center . that way she could see everything and get gone when she needed too . Storm water hitting our bridge windows was a turn-off for her !

stikpusher

caught fire at start engines

Ok, that's not a good omen.

Probably right up there with being in an RH-46 where you were cautioned to mind the hellhole (hatch for same being long gone) to get to the ramp.

CapnMac82

 

 

stikpusher

a perfectly good aircraft

 

 

Ain't no such animal--just ask any Plane Captain or Crew Chief

 

Yeah I know... the c-130 for my cherry blast caught fire at start engines... real fun to evac rigged in full combat gear...

now that was a day... 

stikpusher

a perfectly good aircraft

Ain't no such animal--just ask any Plane Captain or Crew Chief

Tanker - Builder

CapnMac 82 ;

 Was that one a cat with a bobbed tail ? beautiful animal !

No, a Manx, tail genetically stunted.  Full tortoise-shell belly on a three-color mackerel-tabby coat.  As maneki neko go, he was white, black, and gold--all of the fortunate neko colors at once.  Breedhouse rescue, too.  Had a good run of more than 15 years.

Tanker - Builder

This One Stik , looks familiar :

 She looks just like our ships cat ! The one who gave us the laughs when the ship would roll . She never seemed to time her jumps right in a moderate sea ! A stormy sea ? She stayed on top of the engineers desk then .

 

Im sure that cat would have been a great diversion in the back of a C-130 flying nap of the earth... take your mind and sense of smell off of all the guys puking.... those who ask why jump out of a perfectly good aircraft have never experienced such a ride...

goldhammer

Gene - can see why you are so fond of her....she's a beauty, and can tell she knows it and uses it to advantage.

TB - have had a couple like that, one that loved to crawl into my coat, turn around and peer out at the world, and the wife taught him to give high fives.  He was left pawed to boot.

You guys are right...people have dogs, cats have staff. 

Have several, one comes in when she decides she wants a belly rub.

 

 Goldhammer,  I had a Persian who would retrieve.  She had me well trained.  Staff indeed!

Gene - can see why you are so fond of her....she's a beauty, and can tell she knows it and uses it to advantage.

TB - have had a couple like that, one that loved to crawl into my coat, turn around and peer out at the world, and the wife taught him to give high fives.  He was left pawed to boot.

You guys are right...people have dogs, cats have staff. 

Have several, one comes in when she decides she wants a belly rub.

My lady has a standard poodle as her service dog (diabetic alert), haven't had a dog around for about 10 years now (last one was a Samoyed), and having to learn dogs all over again.

This One Stik , looks familiar :

 She looks just like our ships cat ! The one who gave us the laughs when the ship would roll . She never seemed to time her jumps right in a moderate sea ! A stormy sea ? She stayed on top of the engineers desk then .

CapnMac 82 ;

 Was that one a cat with a bobbed tail ? beautiful animal !

Hey ! 

 Is that the way your cat feels about all this Modelcrazy ?

" G " 

 Fear not my friend .You just don't understand them . Cats are NOT for everyone and I do believe there have been at least two in my life I would've liked to terminate !

 Cats aren't really attuned to what we think a pet should be . There is a phrase I learned many years ago that sums it up . "You don't have a cat . The Cat has you ! " 

 All is good  ,as I have dog type Friends ( one ) and two bossy talking birds . We all get along swimingly. The Birds have already drawn the line where the cats are concerned . Haven't seen the cats cross it either !

This one

did this...

lets just say that I was quite tempted to use (justified) deadly force...

Keeping my chair warm

Preventing ribbons from taking over the world.

Not a hazard to curios or models.
Sadly, gone three years' now.  Such is the circle of life.
Icebergs, Sweedish frieghters, random German torpedos, one just never knows

  GM, I thought it was funny, but then life has never been too serious for me & I just started loving cats when we got Lucy. Then another good friend of mine who has entered & won a lot of Toyko;s big Tamiya contests was building the Titanic,1.350, in a forced perspective setting. He had the model finished & was putting it in a special box to show it sinking & the cat knocked it off the table. He took the remains to Tokyo & entered a special contest. 

I am truly sorry for what I said.

Seriously.

It was meant as a joke.

But it's not funny.

I don't like cats but other people do, and it's for a good reason.

Animals make our life better.

I love Saint Francis, as we do in the area where I live. My parish was founded by a Franciscan, we have a Franciscan Saint in our local church, and my wife who is very devout and interested in symbols has Frank stuff all over the house.

Good Pope too.

In any case, who am I to advocate killing cats?

A bad joke.

Tank, You get 5 stars for your last post. Any man that loves cats can't be all bad. I never paid much attention to cats until I got Lucy & she is the light of our lives. 

Hey " G " 

 You don't like cats ? Mine loves models .And surprisingly she doesn't touch them either .All the time my Land-lady's daughter is telling me to be careful . All the time Sam ( the cat's name ), makes a worrier of nothing out of her .

 Sam doesn't even touch my LEGO constructs that start out being built on the floor . I give her her own brick and she's fine . When I am modeling she gets a bottle or small plastic jar lid and she's happy .

 Besides when I hurt either emotionally or physically she's there to comfort me ! Purring will make me go to sleep just like a oversize shot of " Jack - Black ". She just seems to know that something isn't right .

 Besides , Have you ever seen a cat try to jump from the cabinet top to the bunk just as the ship rolls ? FunnnnY ! !

Tanker - Builder

Hubris is a state of mind conjecturing that neither fate or human interference could harm what they built . No matter how great or small .

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

In context these words are inscribed upon the ruins of a broken terra cotta statue.

Gravitas sine veritas hubris est

Cats.

last legitimate excuse for civilian ownership of assault rifles.

. Cats and models.... 

Tanker - Builder

What ?

You never heard of Hubris ? Those who missed the Ark knew of it . So did the famous 300 ( Later that is ). Hubris is a state of mind conjecturing that neither fate or human interference could harm what they built . No matter how great or small .

 

A cat and a rigged ship on a shelf will cure Hubris.   

    Jim

What ?

You never heard of Hubris ? Those who missed the Ark knew of it . So did the famous 300 ( Later that is ). Hubris is a state of mind conjecturing that neither fate or human interference could harm what they built . No matter how great or small .

Tanker - Builder

Hi Peter ! 

 You know I think you are right . My Grandmother , on my Mother's side , would agree .She missed the sailing and came over on the Olympic ! She never got over the fact that such a Beautiful ( as ships went then ) Vessel and man's grandest Peaceful endeavor on the high seas could be lost so easily . She called it Hubris . I think she got it right !

I learnt a new word. Thanks.

Juggernaut it was.  Thanks CapnMac82!

 I wonder what it was like for cast and crew of the Juggernaut movie to know you really are going to sink.  Perhaps they had a small inkling of what the original Titanic "Cast and Crew" felt in 1911.

      TB,

It's a terrible thought but maybe it took that many kits to finally get a good accurate Titanic model.  Minicraft's newer 1/350 release has all the best fixes. (FSM member BigJake was involved in the corrections to the mold). 

Nino

Passanger Liner that was actually filmed while sinking. Anybody remember what Ship/ Movie?

Probably not Rod, unless you are thinking of "Glass Bottom Boat"

Perhaps it was "Juggernaught" with Omar Sharif, Richard Harris, and Tony Hopkins?  If I remember rightly, the ship used was on its way to the breakers, and thus available for filming.

Okay, we're really adrift now. It's time to lower the sea anchor.

Well, a sea anchor is only useful if the sea current is moving in a useful direction.  (Sea anchor works by increasing drag from water current.)

Were it a serious need, the Quartermaster of the Watch would remind the Duty Helmsman of the base course.  Far better if it were QMoW than the JOoD, or OoD, or, heaven forfend, the CO. 

GMorrison

 

 

Tanker - Builder

Okay Now :

 How did the Poseidon become the center of attention ?

 

 

 

 

A total lack of self control.

 

But seriously, that's what it takes. A knowledge by the general public.

The novel is loosely based on a ship like the Queen Mary. The movie was partly filmed on board that ship in Long Beach.

That would be the logical place to start.

 

 

 Bill,   Regarding  "... filmed on board..."

     My memory sometimes comes in pieces so I am now remembering a movie with a real Passanger Liner that was actually filmed while sinking. Anybody remember what Ship/ Movie? The guy from the original Time Machine movie was the star I think (Rod Taylor ??). 

Okay, we're really adrift now.  It's time to lower the sea anchor.

  Jim.