Custom Built Models
Bought and Sold Since 1953

We at Ship Ahoy Models and Miniatures have been building models for over 50 years while specializing in radio controlled prototypes.

Bob Prezioso,
Partner
After completing four years in the General Electric Company Apprentice Course for Tool and Die Maker, Bob, has spent the last 20 years of his career employed at an aero-space corporation where he has designed and built tools and fixtures.

Approximately 15 years ago, Prezioso, who wanted good model building power sanders to use in building models and who was "tired of under powered model sander toys," designed and implemented the "Thickness Sander" as well as the "Disc Sander".

After buying the necessary machine shop equipment, Prezioso, started manufacturing his sanders for other model builders to use and has been building models and sanding tools ever since.

Prezioso, anxious to start a business associated with his love for model building, met a gentleman by the name of Pat Ferrara, at the U.S.S. Constitution Model Shipwright Guild at the Charlestown Navy Yard. Soon both model enthusiasts began conversing and found that they both shared a love of model building.  The rest is history, the two model builders have been true friends and loyal partners for 20 years.

Pat Ferrara,
Partner
Pat Ferrara worked in the automobile business for thirty years and then went to work for the Athletic Department at MIT. Now retired from MIT, Ferrara devotes most of his time to his model shop in Boston's North End.

Ferrara started model making with airplanes, but switched to ships when he was about eighteen. "With airplanes, it was always the same. You built them up from balsa and paper, with a rubber band engine, flew them once or twice, they crashed and you started all over again."

The first boat model Ferrara built was the famous Schooner America, from a Scientific kit. He made five or six solid hull models but has been building plank on frame ever since.