Links

(If you have a favorite site which deals with either the model or the real thing, let us know at info@hubhobbyshop.com and we'll check it out)

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New Orleans Model Aviation Club flies outside of Avondale and this site has a map on how to get there.

Crescent City Model Railroad Club has a huge layout. This site has pictures taken at the club, as well as lots of shots of real trains which run through the New Orleans area.

Games

Alliance Game Distribution is the only gaming company you'll need to bookmark. In addition to a complete on-line catalog, this site has links to virtually every game manufacturer

The Strategy Gaming Society has just unveiled a worldwide gamers database. This free database lists gamers from around the world, divided into geographic regions so you can easily locate gamers living nearby or when you are traveling. In addition to geographic location, the database includes contact information, profiles and types of games played so you can search and find gamers whose tastes in games are similar to your own.

Hurricane Tracking Models

• NOAA's site has a graphics section that has a three day and five day map showing the projected path of any active storms. There's a forecast advisory, and daily discussion of activity, all of which are updated every three to five hours. The satellite imagery section has visible light and IR images.



• Navy Research Lab has our favoritest Hurricane forecasting model

History & Science

Model Bridge Design is a web site about building bridges - - like for the Balsa Bridge Contests!

• Balsa Bridge gives you some ideas on building that scourge of high school science projects - - - the balsa bridge contest.

Check out This to That because people have a need to glue things to other things. You type in the two materials you want to bond and it tells you which is the best adhesive for the job.

• Motty's Planes contains images of the many aircraft that this site's creator has seen and photographed over many years during his work and travels. They are aimed at providing a series of photo references for scale modelers.

If you've ever scratched your head and thought, "What if?," you'll be absolutely bowled over by How Stuff Works. It has 75 "What If?" You're driving down the road and for the tenth time today, your eight-year-old son is asking you one of his favorite kinds of questions -- the "What If ... ?". "Daddy, what if there was no gravity?" "Daddy, what if we tied 150 balloons to our Jack Russell terrier?" "Daddy, what if I only ate peanut butter from now on?"

• Discover Magazine is now online. It's the electronic version of the scientific magazine of the same name. Plenty of interesting articles and superb images.

• Armour In Focus is an AFV Association affiliated Site and is provided as a resource for those with an interest in military vehicles. It features provide detailed photographic studies sometimes accompanied by vehicle development histories and specifications.

A blow by blow account of Tiger 131, from manufacture through capture in Tunisia, return to the United Kindgom, to the current restoration project. This section is continually expanded, and contains over 110 photos on thirty-six pages. It also offers a pictorial history of Tiger Tanks, from early plans and prototypes through to action and propaganda photos.

This site has information on the Bismarck. You'll have access to all kind of original material concerning the battleship Bismarck. Including the complete war diary of the ship, debriefing reports from survivors, printing press, memories, etc. It also has information on the ship's company: From the higher officers to the lower ratings. The story ofhow the wreck of the Bismarck was found, what is its current state, and which were the most recent expeditions carried out is also covered

Voice of the Shuttle is the premier online destination for the humanities and social sciences. Gateway to history sites, libraries, and museums and has deep research links in over 25 categories.

NAVsource has images, history, crew contacts, building, service and final fate information on the US Navy. It's the largest US Navy Warship Photo Collection on the Internet.

Solar System gives each planet its own icon to click, as well as covering topics (with loads off images) of asteroids and meteorites. It also has a student resource section which is great for school projects.

Astronomy Picture of the Day is a NASA site. Tons of photographs of space images.

National Geographic has its own web site that is as slick as the magazine of the same name. It has sections covering Travel, Adventure, Maps, and Photography, as well as special feature sections (such as Pearl Harbor). Outstanding photos.

The Web Gallery of Art contains over 10,100 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. A considerable number of the pictures are commented and biographies of the significant artists are given. A versatile search engine allows you to find pictures in the collection using various search criteria. A number of guided tours make it easier to visit the Gallery and to understand the artistic and historical relationship between different artworks and artists included in the collection.

The Lemelson Center is a place to explore the exciting world of invention. Whether you're a student, teacher, inventor, or history buff, you'll find things you can use here.

You can find everything you'd ever want to know about volcanoes at Volcano World. (Sounds like a theme park). This is another site that NASA has its hands in. It lists volcanoes by regions with photos. There's a volcano named "Undara". Want to venture a guess as to where it's located? . . . . . Wrong! It's in Australia.

A military history research site can be found at Felgrau. Its focus is on the German armed forces during the most tumultuous period of the 20th century, the time between 1919 and 1945. Online since February of 1996 and with nearly one million visitors, its main focus is on the operational history of the units and organizations that made up the German army, navy, air force and all associated auxiliary formations, both during the Weimar period and the NSDAP era. Although this site is a massive work in progress, their motto is "information kept secret is lost". There are many sections of this site that are not yet complete, but there is also much to be found as well.

Let's go to France: The Louvre. Click on the language of your choice and you're off and running in the world's premier museum.

And now a trip to California: The J. Paul Getty Museum. Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings and drawings, manuscripts, sculptures, plus special exhibits.

PBS-History isn't as boring as the name sounds. It has sections on the Ancient World, Biographies, and War & Espionage. It sounds just like a NOVA episode. Wait a minute; it is!

 The Valley of the Shadow has primary Civil War documents and interactive battle maps

 Sub Net is educational, enlightening and enjoyable as you learn about the Submarines and Submariners of the U.S. Naval Submarine Force -- where it came from, where it is and where it's going.

The Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut, home of Historic Ship NAUTILUS (SSN 571), is the United States Navy's official submarine museum. The mission of the museum is to collect, preserve, interpret and present the history of the United States Submarine Force.

This is an awesome web site on U-boats. Talks about the technical prowess of the machines but more so the men that served in them, many of them knowingly of their lonely and final faith

American Memory has 5 million items in it and features historical collections from the Library of Congress

If you saw the Faberge exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art or the Treasures of Nicholas and Alexandra in Mobile, then you'll like this site. The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia is on line with over 2000 pictures of really old stuff from Russia and China

Paleontology is the subject covered at the UC Museum of Paleontology. Complete with fossils and dinosaurs

Black Holes and Neutron Stars talks about black holes and neutron stars at this NASA site

Earth and Moon Viewer lets you create live views of the earth or moon from any vantage point in space

Plastics

Achtung Panzer is a must see sight for WWII German Armor. Photos and essays. Even material on variants of which only a few were produced.

Graves Model Guide has a very complete listing of models currently in production, and when it becomes fully operational will have links to manufacturers and other hobby shops across the country. This site is updated weekly.

Star Trek and Fantasy models can be found at Star Ship Modeler.-

Looking for ideas for Pine Wood Derby cars. This site of pictures of some interesting designs

World War I aircraft models can be found at this site. Includes a photo gallery, 3D renderings, product reviews, and computer generated drawings. A WOW factor of 10.

Information on modeling Israeli Defense Force armor and aircraft can be found at this site, as well as paint chips and matching model paint numbers

Pictures of real aircraft can be found at this quartet of sites:

Wright Patterson museum covers the early years to spaceflight.

The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum has online exhibitions

Aero Web has tons of pictures

Aero Files covers American aviation from 1903 to 2003

Grenadier Reviews is a figure modeling site

Russian Armor According to site visitor Marcus Weldon, this site "has merged with the Soviet Union Factbook. It will continue to focus on WWII, but will expand to cover all the wars fought by the USSR from the Civil War until it collapsed, as well as other aspects of that empire."

Looking for flags for models? Try one of these 2 sites for downloadable images: Napoleonic Flags and War Flags

The Scale Armoured Fighting Museum specializes in pictures of 1/72 and 1/76 armor kits

The Model Tank Gallery has tanks galore

Trains

• From the creator of Louisiana Rail Site, comes Rail Whales: "The nineteen sixties saw a dramatic change in the shape and size of many American freight cars. It all began with the Southern Railway's Big John 100-ton covered hopper. The Southern felt that bigger cars should allow it to charge lower rates, but the Interstate Commerce Commission disagreed. The matter went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court; and the Court ruled in favor of the railroad. For the rest of the 1960's, the race was on to build bigger and bigger cars of all types. Almost all of these cars rode on four axles, but about 600 tank cars were built with six or eight axles. I call them RailWhales!" - - - Mike Palmeri

Louisiana Rail Site tells the history of railroading since the 1830s. Contains articles and extensive gallery of the trains that have passed through the state.

Here's a group of freelanced model railroads:Franklin & South Manchester - - - Piermont Division of the Western Maryland RR - - -

Hudson point and Hawthorne - - -

Four County Society of Model Engineers - - -

Crabbit & Pitchahissie RR - - -

Tall Pine - - -

Hoosac Valley RR - - -

Micro-Trains lists all their N scale couplers, plus a free database download of their coupler conversion chart.

TrainWeb deals with full size trains for railfans. It even has Rail-Cams.

Rail Link claims to have 8,209 other web-sites linked to it arranged by World Regions. A combination of real railroads and model railroads, it's a bit on the quirky side. The quality is inconsistent and there are also some dead links.

For Conrail fans, there's the Conrail Cyclopedia.

Alco locomotives can be found at this site, which is exclusively dedicated to the American Locomotive Company diesels.

Gigantic site for the "Penn Central of the West", also known as the Southern Pacific. Fantastic volumes of photos and roster info.

And then, for the real Penn Central, there is the Penn Central RR Historical Society.

Want to know more about the Southern, model and prototype, and in particular the Piedmont Division? Go here.

Under Western Skies is devoted to Western railroading and has some great night pictures.

This one is a gigantic railroad web-link Nexus -

The California Zephyr has a site for railfans which details its history. Slick site with lots of photos.

You can download free software for designing your own train layouts from Atlas.

Kadee has a conversion chart showing which couplers different engines and freight cars take.

Awesome isn't a powerful enough word to describe Fallen Flags with its 25,000 plus photos of real diesel and steam engines. Alphabetical by road name, then divided by motive power type

Little Foot is a site dedicated to N scale. It has an "info" area filled with tips.

Interested in DCC? Digitrax gives a complete run down of what is involved in setting up your trains to use DCC

N-Trak Club deals with N scale modular railroading

Microscale has pictures of their decals, plus a searchable data base

Penn Central trains can be seen here, along with maps and rosters.