Hello From North Carolina (Youngsville)

[Luchon]

My name is Yves Vidal and after spending 35 years in Raleigh, NC, I moved to a small town called Youngsville, NC. Because of the move, my workshop is not yet ready and it will take months before it happens and allows me to resume my modeling activities.

I was very active on Model Ship World and spent more than 12 years on that forum. I went through two web site crashes and have decided to no longer post anything there. I hope that Ship of Scale is more serious when it comes to saving and back-upping data. It would be difficult to do worse than MSW, in that regard.

All my models were described in great and infinite details on MSW but everything has been lost forever. I will simply post recent pictures of my work on SOS, since I did not keep any records of the building phases.

It feels very lonely around here, and if you are a ship modeler and a train enthusiast (I model in O scale 2 rails), please do not hesitate to get in touch with me.

My modeling is mostly centered around the 48th scale (due to my passion for O-Scale trains). Occasionally, I will model in 1/32nd or 1/24th or 1/200th. That is pretty much it.

I am using the forum name "Luchon" as it is the place where I grew up, in the middle of the Pyrenees, at the border between France and Spain.

Yves

 

[zoly99sask]

Welcome aboard!

 

[Pathfinder65]

Hi there, welcome to SOS. It's nice to have several hobbies. I spend my time between shipmodeling and model railroading. My RR is 1.22.5 scale loosly based on the Swiss RhB.

 

[Donnie]

Hi Yves Vidal,
Yes, we do back up our data. In addition to this, we use a few Security Protocols on our Enterprise Cloud based Server. Also, we do a daily backup of our database automatic cron jobs. We also perform a major account backup. An "Account backup" in case if we have to migrate to a completely different server host system. We also do a "Home Directory" backup. All of this is saved on a system that is monitored. Both backups go through a complete and thorough virus detection once saved to make sure data is clear.
There is nothing really 100.0000 % foolproof, just because the nature of technology, but at least we take measures to make sure data is good and recoverable to the best of our ability.

I hope you enjoy Ships of Scale as it has been in operation since ca. 2009. We acknowledge there are real people behind those models and we want all of our members to feel at home to share what ever they wish, even if it has nothing to do with the model you are working on.

Kindly
Donnie