Category:Superquick Model Kits

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Superquick Model Kits

1960 -

2000: Interior of the 2000 Superquick brochure [image info]

Hotel, Offices and Restaurant, low-relief models, Superquick C1 [image info]

Cinema, Post Office and Shop, low-relief models, Superquick C2 [image info]

Regency Period Shops and House, low-relief models, Superquick C4 [image info]

The Superquick range of card models were designed by artist and illustrator Donovan Lloyd (2014-2009), who started on a career as an architectural model maker, but "swerved" into a different line of work making card kits of model buildings for kits aimed at owners of model railway layouts, instead.

The Superquick models are printed on decent paper, preglued onto a tougher card backing, and then diecut, so the parts only need to be pushed out of their sheets breaking the small retaining links and then used, with no actual cutting required.

2000: outer side of the y2k Superquick brochure

The range is still in production.

Quotes

Superquick expect to extend their range in 1963 by six to eight new kits, two of which will be new 4mm. scale platform and station building kits. On past form these should be very good indeed; each kit seems a distinct improvement on the one that went before.
— , News Special, , Railway Modeller, , January 1963

SUPERQUICK KITS now offer you a range of twenty-one different buildings accurately scaled, fully coloured and cut out ready for assembly. Making them up is a fascinating hobby in itself, but if you are planning a OO or TT gauge railway layout you cannot do better than start with one of the many SUPERQUICK models in Series A or Series TT.
The buildings, although in many cases architecturally different, have about them the family likeness which does much to capture that "real life" look.
You will find them quite simple to make up, surprisingly strong and rigid, free from any tendency to warp, and most reasonably priced. Your local model shop will show them to you and give you a free leaflet illustrating the complete range.

— , Superquick advert, , Railway Modeller, , January 1963

Superquick kits are produced in five or six authentic colours, mounted on board to produce a tough laminate almost 1mm thick and ready cut for immediate assembly. These realistic models, by the scaling of their detail, by their strength and durability, have been for nearly 40 years now the modellers first choice in buildings for rail and road layouts.
These railway, industrial and country town series models are fascinating to make up whether intended for a model railway or not.
Combined with the low relief models shown overleaf, complete realism can be given to any model village or railway layout.

— , Superquick (PEMS Butler Ltd.), , Superquick leaflet, , January 2000

Scale

The current Superquick range is scaled at 4mm/foot (in other words, scaled for 00-gauge model railway layouts). This was always the main range – the company did experiment with a smaller and comparatively short-lived TT SERIES three-quarters-scaled range for TT model railway layouts, and a small set of 1/32-scale MR SERIES motor racing buildings aimed at owners of slot-car systems.

Later brochure covers

Addresses

E. Keil & Co., Ltd., Wickford, Herts
P.E.M.S. Butler Ltd., PO Box 5, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire HP27 – (~1993)
P.E.M.S. Butler Ltd., The Red House, Axminster Devon EX13 5SE – (~2001)

SUPERQUICK MODEL KITS, 16 Carlyle Road, Bristol BS5 6HG – (2017)

Range

SERIES A: Railway Buildings

A1 – Station Platform
A2 – Country Station Building
A3 – Island Platform
A4 – Island Platform Building
A5 – Two Road Locomotive Shed
A6 – Signal Box
A7 – Goods Depot Building
A8 – Water Tower & Weighbridge
A9 – Covered Footbridge
A10 – Railway Terminus Building
A11 – Station Master's House & Crossing Keeper's Cottage
A12 – Coal Tower
A13 – Ash Plant
A14 – Red Brick Bridge / Tunnel Entrances
A15 – Blue Brick Bridge / Tunnel Entrances
A16 – Stone Bridge / Tunnel Entrances

SERIES B: Country Town Buildings

B21 – "The Swan" Inn
B22 – Two Country Town Shops
B23 – Two Detached Houses
B24 – "Greystokes" Farmhouse
B25 – Police Station or Public Library
B26 – Farm Hayloft and Barn
B27 – Supermarket and Shop
B28 – Elizabethan Cottages
B29 – Country Church
B30 – Four Terraced Cottages
B31 – The Village School
B32 – Country Garage and Petrol Pump
B33 – Railway Hotel
B34 – Depot Building
B35 – Market House
B36 – Country Fire Station

SERIES C: Low Relief

C1 – Hotel, Offices and Restaurant
C2 – Cinema, Post Office and Shop
C4 – Regency Period Shops and House
C5 – Red Brick Terrace Backs
C6 – Red Brick Terrace Fronts
C7 – Red Brick Terrace Corner

SERIES D: Building Papers

D1 – Red Brick
D2 – Yellow Brick
D3 – Engineers Blue Brick
D4 – Red Tiles
D5 – Grey Slates
D6 – Grey Paving Stones
D7 – Flintstone Walling
D8 – Grey Sandstone Ashlar Walling
D9 – Red Sandstone Ashlar Walling
D10 – Grey Sandstone Courser's Walling
D11 – Red Sandstone Courser's Walling
D12 – Grey Rubble Walling
D13 – Red Rubble Walling

In the museum

The museum holds a full archive of the unbuilt Superquick range (as it was around y2k) ... which has turned out to be somewhat less significant that it might otherwise have been, since the range is still available, new, from the company!

We also have a few Superquick buildings on the two 00-gauge layouts, and a couple of "scaled-up" Superquicks on the central 1930s gauge 0 layout.