I recently obtained one of the vintage Revell building kits, the Superior Bakery #H-997. It looks complete except the the instructions and signage are for the Weekly Herald kit # H-996.
I saw a reference on Google which led me to this forum, where someone had discussed kitbashing with this kit as the base. If anyone out there has a set of instructions, and possible signage, I would really appreciate getting a copy. I would be glan to compensate you for your effort.
Are you looking for an article on kitbashing that structure, or are you looking for specific instructions for the kit itself?
If I remember correctly, this kit was also imported by AHM. So if someone has the AHM instructions they may be able to help you. I also believe that this kit, the Weekly Hearld kit you mentioned, and another kit that was an engine house all used the same basic parts and went together in similar fashion. I would almost think that if you lay out the parts for the kit you have and compare them to the Weekly Hearld instructions you’ll find that you might have enough information to get your kit together.
I think I have one of the kit flavors around, unbuilt, but of course I can’t immediately find it.
As far as kitbashing goes, there was an article in MR by Ed Steinberg (Ed, if you’re reading this forgive me for probably spelling your name incorrectly) that was, I think, about a heavy equipment garage. I think that he used one of the engine house kits to make a garage. And I think there was another article where the author used the bakery kit for something else, but who and what also escapes me at this moment.
Superior Bakery, the Weekly Herald, and the enginehouse were all variations on the same kit, and are pretty easy to assemble. One or two areas, if I recall correctly, have interchangeable inserts, to allow for some variation in placement of doors and windows.
When they were first released by Revell, I wanted the bakery kit but it wasn’t available locally, so I settled for the Weekly Herald. When that layout was sold, some of the structures were saved, including the Herald. Eventually, to save storage space, it was broken down into its original components and languished in a box for many years. I finally dug it out and, after some clean-up and minor repairs, re-assembled it for use as the Lowbanks Stockyard’s auction building. I added a scratchbuilt office area on the front, as I never liked the “modernised” front that came with the Herald kit. [;)]
Bob, you’re welcome. I’d like to see what you do with it.
I built the bakery when it first came out I guess it was around 1961. I really liked this kit. I picked up 2 Weekly Herald and 1 Bakery kit really cheap.
I recall an article from MR in the early '60s where someone turned one of those buildings sideways, cut out the brick inside the arches, and turned it into a three stall engine house.
The Superior Bakery was over the years available from Revell, AHM, Heljan/Con-Cor and perhaps others. In essence it was actually the same building as the Revell Engine House with some detail differences. If you can find Art Curren’s book Kitbashing HO Model Railroad Structures you;ll find several articles (originally from MR) about various kitbashes: The Hardly Able Mfg Co and Superior Sandwich Factory. the MR index should be able to trace the original articles if you don’t have the book.
I remember this one quite clearly, after all these…decades. Yes, the author mentioned he had a lot of heavy equipment models (I guess he was a ante-internet 1/87 vehicle club modeler), and eneded up building a scene to display them, including the revell engine house kitbashed into a garage. There was some nice models in the scene, but image what he could have done with all the Norscott & Athearn Case/Volvo/Cat/John Deere heavy equipment models out there nowadays (well, looking at some of the 1/87 photo galleries it’s very easy to picture).
The only thing I don’t remember was if that was the article where the author kitbashed all 3 versions of the kit (Engine house, Bakery, Herald) to make his building, or was that a different article altogether (for that, I remember the author saying he probably only needed 2 of the kits to supply the necessary parts, but wasn’t sure which kits).
Hmmmmm. I remember that also, but I’m not sure where from. I’ll have to look up the Steinberg article and see what he said.
EDIT: I found the article. It was called the “Eastwyck & Fensterstock Construction Co.” and was in the January 1978 issue of MR. And he says he “bought all three kits on sale at the local hobby shop. I probably could have managed with two of them, but I’m not sure which two. I’ve used parts of them all”.
As previously written, this kit has been around for a good 40 years (in one form or another) and it seems like everyone has had one. Revell was my favorite structure kit maker (also ships, planes, cars) and I built a lot of them.
In the mid-90s, I picked up two of them and kitbashed a double long engine house - which I still have and will put on my current under construction HO layout. Being twice the length, it sure is more suitable for larger locos, and looks good too.
One problem I had to address was to install girders (plastruct I beams) inside the long walls to keep them from warping. Also added them to the roof as well.
No real need for instructions (they are long gone in my case), and the signage they gave with them was “paper on paper” and probably of no use given the aging process.
