A recent donation included a Lonestar #5009 Trailmobile 40’ flatbed trailer. Everythgn seems to be there except for the instructions. I contacted Lonestar a couple of weeks ago, but no reply. There seem to be a number of extra detail parts that can be used optionally.
Does anyone have instructions form this type of trailer? There is a site that has many model instructions, but I do not remember the site adress.
Go to the Lonstar web site.
https://lonestarmodelsinc.com/index.php?route=common/home
Go down to the bottom of the page, look for the column titled Modeler Resources.
Click on the first line: Kit assembly and decal instructions.
You’ll get a page with links to PDF’s of different models.
Should get you started. They look like nice models.
Mike
I see Mike already took care of You…
Those are some really accurate and to scale models…take Your time in assembly. Some very tiny parts that have to be cut off the sprues. I have a number of them that I have put some scratch built loads on. They are very light when assembled. They also make some great Wilson grain trailers that are also to scale.
One of the 40ft. trailers with Plastruct truss girders on it. The tractor is an old Athearn with the cab extended into a double wide sleeper…which I had one in real life that I restored, a 1969 White Freightliner:
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Thanks Mike, totally missed that feature on their site, but it is well hidden. You would think their customer service would have pointed me in the right direction [:S]
Now I can get to work!
I picked up a Lone Star 40’ flat bed trailer at a train show and same thing - it was missing the instructions. I was able to find a set with the exploded parts diagram and another set with the written instructions at their site.
Nice truck(s) Frank - model and prototype!
Interesting notion: small and smaller manufacturers complain about the time and cost of dealing with customer corrrespondence and service but by simply posting their instructions on their websites (and making it known they are there) they’d be doing themselves a favor. HO Seeker can’t do it all. Lonestar has the right idea here.
Dave Nelson
Anymore that is standard practice for many companies these days, be it a grill, or whatever, instructions are online now pretty universally. The hobby is catching up in same cases; should be a no brainer.