Marine Modelers Club of New England

Radio Control Model Boat Club

   Arthur Perlnmutter's Clyde Puffer Highlander.   The model features a nice smoke unit.   The kit is by Mountfleet from England .  Arthur’s model has three channel control.  In addition to the smoke unit, other features include sound, and working lights, and the motor is water cooled. 

The model represents a ship that is 66 feet long and it is usually referred to as a Coastal Puffer.  The Coastal Puffer served as a maritime workhorse, transporting vital supplies to the people of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.  It got the name Puffer because of the action and sound of the single cylinder engine with its persistent puff-puff up through the funnel.  It is 1/24 scale, with a length of 33 inches and a beam of 9 1/2 inches.     

Don Murray's Cable Head, a Canadian Great Lakes workboat/ferry.  Scratch-built model is 1/18 scale, has a host of working features, including bow ramp, radar antenna, and lights. 

Close-up of the pilothouse of the Cable Head.  Pilothouse features a nicely detailed interior.

Bob Okerholm's US Boat Safe/Sea.   This is a scratch-built model of a boat that is a seagoing equivalent of an AAA Tow Truck. 

  Brad Bulgar's tug Atlantic.  This is the Hobbico/Aquacraft Ready-to-run boat-- a fine looking model.  

 Willi Zankel's Seabex One.  Built from the Robbe kit, the model has working fire monitors.

Don Murray's scratch-built 1/96 scale Freighter Dawn Glow.  The model is over five feet long, has working lights and a loud ship's horn.  Don used readily available HO scale (1/87) containers for the deck load.

Willi Zankel's Creole Queen.  Sternwheeler is from the Dumas kit, features an on-board sound system with Dixieland music.