HOW DO YOU ARCHIVE YOUR BUILDS--A POLL

[sports850]

I've been trying to find a better system for years , but I collect anything to do with mini's from models (die cast , plastic , glass , coal , wood , ceramic etc) , sales brochures , books , manuals , whatever and need some way of keeping track of it all . I have over 800 models and as they are not all on display where I see them often I forget what variations I have and end up buying doubles . I would love to find a decent , searchable database that allows photo's of each item , especially if it could be converted to android as well so I could use it on my smart phone so I have a handy reference when travelling . Has anybody got any suggestions ???

[Tony T]

Photobucket for build progress and finished pictures.

As for other stuff, like reference materials...magazines, brochures, etc are on a shelf in magazine boxes...no organization at all!

[jbwelda]

you archive them?

[59 Impala]

I have a 'pilot project:' I pile some of it here, I pile some of it there, I pile some of it everywhere, and I never can find the right pile again.

And what's that got to do with chives? (Now I'm hungry for a baked tater!)

Danno, you fuhney :lol: I use Photobucket fer my archiving fer the internet, as if'n ya couldn't tell by my signature an all. :D Dan

[brad4321]

I do nothing. I've built hundreds of models. I've never photographed one. Some make on the shelf. Some go back in the box. Some go in the garbage eventually. I've never felt the need to share any of them. I'd like to but I'm pretty much an idiot when it comes to digital cameras and uploading photos and anything concerning electronics. For me, it's a very solitary hobby.

[sjordan2]

My "archiving" is mostly for reference materials for each car, which can amount to a massive use of memory. I keep most of it on my hard drive with a duplicate backup on an external hard drive. Sometimes also copied on CD-ROM.

I don't like to keep a lot of images on Photobucket (especially since they recently reduced the amount of free account bandwidth), and I remove Photobucket files as soon as I think they're obsolete for further posting, or are part of threads that won't pick up again. You can see, among our members, that some have lost their posted images because of overloading Photobucket. (Most heartbreakingly, Simón R.'s beautiful Aston Martin build. Click below to see the damage.)

http://www.modelcars...opic=26809&st=0

I would add that these Photobucket deletions occur anywhere and everywhere they've ever been posted online. Simón posted the same Aston images at scaleautomag.com and they're all gone there, too.

Edited May 26, 2012 by sjordan2

[mopar68]

Shouldn't Simón's photo's return within a month? I just looked it up here- http://support.photobucket.com/entries/21101931-bandwidth-exceeded-look-who-s-popular

According to that, he hasn't technically lost his photos, but rather everyone has lost the ability to view them until his bandwidth limit resets.

[Dr. Cranky]

Thank you to all those who've contributed a response.

[Junkman]

Archive my builds?

First of all, I would have to finish a build. And if I did, Günther and Gerhard would invade my home and snatch it before the paint is dry.

[Casey]

What surprises me is that nobody is using YOUTUBE. That's a surprise.

Why is that surprising to you, Virgil?

I think many people view YouTube as a place for entertainment videos, rather than a serious, reliable storage place for saving photos and videos. I'm not saying Photobucket or any other photo and video hosting 'site is any better or worse, but I think people tend to be more cautious and conservative when it comes to preserving things they wish to keep. That includes the presentation, as a photograph is still a fairly anonymous way to present something, and the photographer needn't share anything about him/herself. I think most builders enjoy that anonymity.

Good photography is an acquired skill, and considering that a video adds even more components (voice, action, more complex editing, etc.) and complexity, I can understand why most people would prefer still images to video.