Places of Interest

Victorian Battle Squadron
The Victorian Battle Squadron's page is maintained by Tony Collins, the AusBG's Technical Officer and is the best place to find accounts of the early days of the AusBG (this site predates the official AusBG site by a considerable margin)

Last reviewed: 7th May 2002, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org


The Sydney Battle Squadron
The Sydney Battle Squadron was formed in 2001 and is one of the three AusBG squadrons holding regular battle meetings (the others are Canberra and Newcastle). The squadron's page contains contact information, their meeting schedule as well as information on members and vessels.

Last reviewed: 7th May 2002, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org

The Midwest Battle Group
Home of the extraordinarily helpful Midwest Battle Group from the central United States. The advice from the members of the Midwest Battle Group was invaluable in getting the AusBG set up and functioning.

Last reviewed: 28th August 2007, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org


Home port of "Biggun" RC Warships on the Internet
Not a club homepage, instead the homepage of the ever helpful Randy Kehr. Of particular interest is his Naval War College with its extensive collection of articles on ship building and combat operations, his extensive links collection, and "Project California", a project showing just how far it is possible to go with a "Biggun" combat warship's construction.

Last reviewed: 28th August 2007, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org


Western Warship Combat Club
One of the "Big Three" American "Biggun" clubs, this one located the San Francisco Bay Area. These chaps go very much their own way on rules, so AusBG members need to be careful about taking advice on this site too literally. That said, its a good site and these guys have a great time. They list more than 40 operational warships and their website contains their rules, officers, ship and frequency lists, meeting schedule and directions as well as their photo collection. These guys really have some great looking boats !

Last reviewed: 28th August 2007, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org



Mid-Atlantic Battle Group
Speaking as a webpage designer, this is a beautifully constructed home page and has obviously had significant thought put into it. It is the home page of the main "US East Coast" biggun club, the "Mid-Altantic Battle Group". Despite the name, this group is not based in the mid-Atlantic but instead appears to be in Virginia. They have been battling for a while now, including visiting the MBG to really give their boats a try out. A credit to its webmaster. Ignore the weird colour cast of the thumbnail photos, the full sized pictures are quite good.

Last reviewed: 5th Jan 2005, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org


North Texas Battle Group
The excellent home page of the large "biggun" battlegroup, the "North Texas Battle Group" a fully operational group holding regular meetings. This site is particularly strong on construction articles but has a lot more, including a small, low res, combat photo collection.
Well worth a visit, especially for the those who want to build a warship.

Last reviewed: 17th May 2002, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org

Jim's Model Warship Combat Page

Another personal site from a member of the Midwest Battle Group. This one has details of the Japanese Heavy Cruiser Mikuma, the Italian Battleship Roma and the large American Carrier USS Midway. It also has a tribute to Bill Newbauer, the main source of "Indiana" style cannon for many years and a selection of printable flags. These are *.WPS files and what software you need to print them is currently unclear.

Last reviewed: 22nd May 2002, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org

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Queen's Own Scale Model Warship Club
1/72 Scale Model Warship Combat

Modelwarship.com
An Australian site dedicated to 1/72nd scale naval vessels. Mike Kear has put a lot of effort into this site and it is a great resource for those interested in fine scale modeling. It is complete with links, articles and some terrific pictures of some really wonderful models. They can't operate as real warships (i.e. they are not RC Combat Warships), rather they are stunning examples of what a dedicated builder can do. Well worth a visit.

Last reviewed: 4th July 2002, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org


R/C Web Directory:
Huge list of R/C related links

Naval Warfare Simulations
The home of "Fighting Steel", the best computer wargame for WWII Dreadnought combat. Also just about a one stop shop for every computer based naval game and lots of board games as well. Very much worth a visit.

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Working on it

The Bowning Ship Yards
Australian made fibreglass hulls. Has supplied nearly all the hulls for the Australian Battle Group. Sends hulls all over the world.

R2 Model Marine
Premier supplier in Oz of Model Boat gear. Most motors, batteries, propellers and shafts in the AusBG are sourced from R2.

BDE Model Warship Combat Supplies
US made "Indiana" style cannon plus plans, gas bottles, regulators and other hard to get supplies.

As a companions to our out Best Photos page, here are a selection of links to other warships sinking.

Sinking Warships (Sinking Warships - Combat)

The grand-daddy of sinking warships sites. This site has sinking warships from the Spanish-American War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War 1, the Spanish Civil War, World War 2 and the Falklands.

Not to be missed.

Last reviewed: 29th June 2002, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org

"Type 12" frigates sinking (Sinking Warships - Decommissioned)

A number of British "Type 12" frigates have been expended as targets, this page covers the sinking of "HMS Lowestoft" (Sinkex), "HMS Berwick" (Sinkex), "HMNZS Waikato" (Scuttled) and the truely spectacular destruction of "HMAS Torrens" (Sinkex) by a Mk 48 torpedo fired by one of Australia's new "Collins" class submarines.

Last reviewed: 22nd May 2002, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org

Ex USS Buchanan SINKEX (Sinking Warships - Decommissioned)

A United States Navy "Charles F Adams" class detroyer, USS Buchanan (DDG-14) was expended as a sinkex target in 2000. This site contains a tribute to the last service this gallant ship gave (as a target), some photos of her damage and a final photo of her slipping away.

Last reviewed: 22nd May 2002, please send updates or corrections to webmaster@ausbg.org