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40,000 lights, 15,000 figurines, 500 cars, 10,000 trees, 50 trains, 1000 wagons, 100 signals, 200 switches and 300 buildings, that’s what it takes to build the worlds largest model airport in Hamburg, Germany.
Miniatur Wunderland continues to amaze visitors with the size and details of its exhibits.

Pinewood Derby Season is upon us.

One Hobby Manufacturer, Woodland Scenics, introduced a new product from their “Pine Car” product line at this year’s iHobby Expo that might be useful to scouts building their cars this year.  As you know getting the precise weight for your car is important.

Check out this video to see what they have to offer.

In the advent of spring this year, the MyHobbyFun.net staff wants you to get out your RC planes, heli’s, boats, cars and trucks as soon as possible. With the addition of a weather tracker/forecasting box in the sidebar of the blog you can monitor and prepare for the best days of sun. We’ve all spent the last few months cooped up with no place to run our new toys we got at the iHobby Expo show last year without many days warm and welcoming enough to go out and RC til our fingers hurt. But I’m ready and riled up to get back out there.

It’s spring-time once again and this means one thing…science fair projects! I remember doing science fair projects as a kid and trying to think of the best science project ever. I wanted something creative, fun and challenging, but ended up growing a few brown withered plants and buried my average grade in the backyard with my project. But now with the vast and endless resources online you don’t have to settle for a project that’s been done a billion times before.

Science is a subject that you can apply to almost anything, especially model hobbies. Comparatively, model airplanes, trains and cars are just smaller versions of their real life counterparts. You can learn the physics of flight and lift using a model airplane, propulsion and circuitry with model trains and much more.

Here’s your chance to find the cool, fun project you’ve been looking for! These links will give you a heads up on your competition and are easy ways to combine a love for model hobbies and science!

Science Project Help

http://www.cool-science-projects.com/Science-Fair-Project-Ideas.htm

Kids to Adults Science Projects

http://scienceclub.org/kidproj1.html

Hobbies and Science

http://www.hobbyscience.com/

Toy Robotics

http://www.hometrainingtools.com/category.asp?c=33&bhcd2=1270660897

Robot Kits for Kids

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/robot_kits_for_kids

Science Projects – Model Airplane and the Mechanics of Flight

http://www.scienceproject.com/projects/intro/elementary/EX022.asp

Physics and Rockets

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXXEG1&P=Y

For Teachers – Teaching with Robots

http://www.botmag.com/articles/01-18-06_Teaching_With_Robots.shtml

Beginners Guide to Rocketry

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/rocket/bgmr.html

All About The Science of Rockets

http://www.apogeerockets.com/index.asp

Rocket links

http://home.swbell.net/sbaughmn/links.html

Magnetic Levitation Train Video

http://www.flixxy.com/magnetic-levitation-model-train.htm

Hovercraft Models

http://www.hovercraftmodels.com/

RC Boat Science Project

http://www.super-science-fair-projects.com/engineering/rc-boat-science-fair-projects.html

RC Truck Science Project

http://www.super-science-fair-projects.com/science-fair-projects-truck-lab.html