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Look at this donkey-cave.



She is the bane of my existence. When she isn't chewing up any models I haven't stored inside a container or knocking over my paint water, she's filling the house with a dense fog of her shed hair.

Do any of you have any tips or tricks for keeping hair off your models or at least removing it when it's been painted over?

I'm this close to having dim sims for dinner, if you know what I mean.

All I can really suggest is a bbq marinade for 24 hours, or maybe a lemon and herb. If you fry her off lightly and serve with a nice crisp salad in a tortilla, your problem should disappear.

On a serious note, if you put a stocking or pair of tights over the handle of a vacuum cleaner, this should remove hair and dust without sucking up any bits.

Vacuum, dust, and in general just clean your house regularly. Here is a tip from a groomer of pets (My own), thatch the hell out of that cat every week.

Follow up suggestion: training.

Everytime you see her near your minis, grab a bucket, fill it with water and give her a bath.

I'm not a cat person, though am under the impression that moggies hate anything cleaning them that isn't their own spit.

After a while it might just sink in that going near your workspace means plunge time!

Get a spray bottle, fill it with water. Every time the cat jumps up on your desk, give it a spritz. You want it kind of misty rather then a jet, but not full mist.

That's how we taught our cats not to jump on the kitchen bench. It might take a week or two depending on how much your car likes water.


Another method is when it jumps up, scruff it, give it a little shake and firmly tell it NO!
They get the message pretty quickly after a few of those.

Of course both these methods depend on how stubborn and persistent your car is.

Well Snrub, my car loves water so that won't solve the problem for me and I know its the most persistent car I know of as well but thanks for trying .

Regularly brush your cat.

When you sit down to paint sprinkle some cat nip on the floor in the same room to distract your cat from your activities.

Keep a tweezer/second brush handy in case a hair gets on your wet paint job.

Painted over hair has to be surgically removed.

Put your toys away.

Put the water away when you are not actively painting.

Play with your cat some more.

Spray bottle with water to keep her off your stuff.

Spray bottle with urine to establish your dominance.

As for dealing with it within paint, I don't think you can - just tweezer the hair out and enjoy your free battle damage.

lock it in another room while you are painting

Spray the entrance to your paint area with a dilute mix of eucalypt oil and water. Get some essence of orange and gently daub the floor around your work area as a further deterrent.

get a dog instead.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
get a dog instead.

I do, she's just as bad except she's courteous enough to have hair that doesn't float around indefinitely after being shed.

I had a cat for many a year, and never once had a problem with cat hair in my paint.

Of course, it may have helped that we established pretty early in the relationship that I do, indeed, speak cat and I'm not afraid to cuss a cat out IN cat to express my displeasure.

(How does one cuss in cat? It involves hissing, yowling, and - on the human scale, at least - mild swats. Your cat will freak the first time you do this, as he's not expecting it. Two or three times later, he'll understand that you are SERIOUS and this is one place he should not push you.)

I have 4 Feline Attack Titans. THey don't bother my tanks and are more inclined to deactivate on my bed as I work. They flee when the dremel tool comes on due to its noise through. I have never gotten Titan fur in my paints. All I can tell you is to train them through negative stimuli. After associating your desk/work area with something bad (getting sprayed by a water bottle, yelling, select phrases along with it), they will stop but it takes time to reinforce the behavior.

cleaning the fuzz from everything its a matter of vacuuming (carefully, or with a "filter" like the others suggest), dusting constantly and so on.

Brought to you by the Mechanicus department of Feline Titan Care.

Awwwww!

Must say, I have cats and have never really had any problems other than if one of decides it doesn't like what I'm painting and bats my model off the table.

D

Cat hair will always be a struggle. As mentioned above, grooming regularly helps but nothing gets rid of it completely.

If she's breaking your models, there are a few solutions. Find substitute things for her to chew on. Mine loves playing with cotton swabs (q-tips). I started using the cotton swabs as cat toys. Rub them in catnip and toss them in a pile of dirty laundry and the cat'll be entertained for ages. Now, so long as there's a q-tip or two laying on the floor of the hobby room, my models are safe because he'd rather play with the q-tip anyway.

Also be sure to designate a space for your cat in your hobby space. It must be free of any other clutter. If feasible, set it up somewhere where your cat likes to hang out anyway. Lay down an old towel and rarely wash it. With continued use, the cat will smell herself on the towel and her territorial instincts will kick in. She will sit on it if she believes she owns it. Combine this with regular affection breaks while painting and you'll be set. I gave my cat an entire shelf on a bookcase about 3' off the ground. It's not the only place he sleeps, but it is the primary one.

You will still get pestered from time to time, but IMO that's one of the perks have having a cat

Honestly, I've had cats on and off for 30 years, most of the hair I got was from shedding paintbrushes not the cats.

My advice is to use toys, and get something called a furminator, it's a comb that will remove those shedding hairs efficiently

Save them, roll them up into a cigar shape with a little water, free cat toys..

When you paint give her the toy, no hair, amused cat and everyone is happy

The furminator was about 6 pounds, well worth it.

Maybe she's vying for attention by attacking something you spend more time with. She'll likely get sick of you fast if you shower her with attention on a regular basis, she's a cat after all. Once she wants to get away from you on a regular basis, she'll leave the minis alone.

 kitch102 wrote:
All I can really suggest is a bbq marinade for 24 hours, or maybe a lemon and herb. If you fry her off lightly and serve with a nice crisp salad in a tortilla, your problem should disappear.

On a serious note, if you put a stocking or pair of tights over the Cat, this should stop hair and without ruining any bits.

Fixed that for ya Kitchy

Lmao! Yeah that'll do nicely

Clean your house bro...

Brush the cat twice a week and switch to a better quality of food.

Less hair everywhere and less litter box cleaning.

Here's a vote for the dim sims.

Have you thought about shaving the cat?

I might recommend brushing the kitty more often. You might also try some sort of air purification set up. Nothing elaborate, just something to suck the air-born dust out of the air.