Lonestar RV

[vincen47]

Here is a relatively quick scratch-building and glue bomb save project I started about six weeks ago. I typically don’t build this quickly. Tamiya pure white and candy lime green. It’s curbside - both the RV body and under the non-opening hood (just a simple engine block painted Cummins red). The real production Lonestar trucks did not come with the Maxxforce 15 that’s in the kit. Since I’m a stickler for engines, I wasn’t going to detail it out if it wasn’t in the real truck.  I wanted to build more of a “home-built” toter, nice, but not a more fancy production-style coach like my Aeromax RV or my current 379 RV project with radius corners. Though, it has the fancier frameless windows you see on new RVs these days, mainly because, well, they are much easier to make. Years ago, Oldr-n-drt was kind enough to send me the cut styrene sides to a toterhome body, which I put to good use on this project. It’s been a long time, but thanks again! For the cab and chassis I used a badly warped daycab glue bomb I got off of eBay that had been sitting around waiting for inspiration to put it to use. I stripped, filled, sanded, and did my best to straighten it. Gluing the hood shut helped a lot. First time doing a flame paint job. I used masks from Lazy Modeller. A little tricky, requiring a bit of touch-up, but not too bad. I used a portion of the aero skirts from a Prostar, modified to fit. Most of the kit chrome was in bad shape and had to be refinished with Revel spray chrome. The front tires are Bridgestone steers from Moluminum. Photo etch from Czech Truck Model. Be sure to ask if there is something I didn’t cover. Hope you enjoyed it.

Edited April 17, 2024 by vincen47

[o-man]

Great looking build

[Gary Chastain]

That’s pretty cool build, love the colors. 

[oldr-n-drt]

vincent...i even forgot about sending yall the parts for the motorcoach??? oldr-n-drt       looking good......

 

 

[grodudulle77]

Awesome build , very clean job !! ??

[vincen47]

4 hours ago, oldr-n-drt said:

vincent...i even forgot about sending yall the parts for the motorcoach??? oldr-n-drt       looking good......

 

 

Yep, looked at them a couple months back and thought there has to be a spare parts truck I could use for a fairly simple project. 

The glue bomb daycab Lonestar chassis fit the length of the side panels perfectly. The chassis was missing one of the axles, but the rear axle on the chassis lined up perfect with the front wheel opening on the sides, so I filled the rear opening. Only being a scale 32’ RV, a single rear axle is fine.

Edited April 17, 2024 by vincen47

[Jim B]

Neat looking motorhome.  Very cool.

[Jon Cole]

What a knockout❕  I am so curious, tho.... can you share how you made the dark tinted RV side windows❔

[vincen47]

3 hours ago, Jon Cole said:

What a knockout❕  I am so curious, tho.... can you share how you made the dark tinted RV side windows❔

I used Plastruct .030” Copoly Sheet #91251, cut to the rectangular size I needed, then I used a corner cutter from Hobby Lobby to get the 1/4” radius corners. It’s called a “Crop-a-dile Corner Chomper”, meant for paper, but it does well on thin styrene and clear copolymer sheet.

Scribed the portion of the windows that can open outward, then I laid them on painters tape, and sprayed one side with a couple light coats of Model Master 2949 Transparent Black Window Tint.

I put window “shades” inside using corrugated styrene sheet. The enamel window tint seems to cover more evenly than the Tamiya Lacquer version, though I’m more partial to Tamiya in general. Maybe it’s the copoly, but the enamel seems to work better. I’m almost out of it, so I’ll have to see if I can find more somewhere.

Edited April 20, 2024 by vincen47

[Dutzie]

Great looking motor home!

[Volzfan59]

In a word.......... WOW!!! I love the paint, outstanding flames.

[TarheelRick]

That is a beautiful motorhome/toter. The color combination works very well with the size and shape. Only thing missing is an enclosed trailer with some form of race car inside. I have a couple of this style build floating around in my head, just need to get to the bench (if I can find it) and get busy cutting some styrene.

[vincen47]

On 4/27/2024 at 1:05 PM, TarheelRick said:

That is a beautiful motorhome/toter. The color combination works very well with the size and shape. Only thing missing is an enclosed trailer with some form of race car inside. I have a couple of this style build floating around in my head, just need to get to the bench (if I can find it) and get busy cutting some styrene.

Very true, it needs something to pull. I’ll need to, at the very least, put together a galaxie enclosed trailer for it. I customized one a few years back for my Aeromax RV Conversion. 
Since these photos were taken, I got another decal sheet to add more graphics to the rear of the trailer.

I have plans to scratch-build a stacker for my current Pete 379 Conversion project.

Edited April 28, 2024 by vincen47

[cifenet]

Great work and your fabrication skill is awesome!  Bravo! 

[Volzfan59]

WOW, @vincen47 your Ford Aero Max rig looks great too. You have a talent for toter homes!

[vincen47]

5 hours ago, Volzfan59 said:

WOW, @vincen47 your Ford Aero Max rig looks great too. You have a talent for toter homes!

Thanks! And yeah, it’s a niche alright. Not a typical thing to be into.

[Volzfan59]

43 minutes ago, vincen47 said:

Thanks! And yeah, it’s a niche alright. Not a typical thing to be into.

I love them, kinda got plans iny head. Probably should pull the trigger one of these days. Your painting and attention to detail are really something.

[iamsuperdan]

Looks awesome!

 

But upon reading the thread title, I thought this would be a different Lonestar RV.

[vincen47]

2 hours ago, iamsuperdan said:

Looks awesome!

 

But upon reading the thread title, I thought this would be a different Lonestar RV.

I totally didn’t think about that when I wrote it. But, yeah, of course!

"Radar repaired, we're picking up the outline of a... Winnebago?"

[Noah H.]

That's a sharp looking build, great color scheme.

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Beautiful build! I like those masks! I’ve considered ordering more of them for future projects. Excellent work!

[vincen47]

On 5/12/2024 at 9:55 PM, DRIPTROIT 71 said:

Beautiful build! I like those masks! I’ve considered ordering more of them for future projects. Excellent work!

Thank you. I’d recommend them, not too difficult to work with. First time using masks for me. I think putting down clear before a color coat helped seal them, just like with masking tape. 

[Scott Eriksen]

Great job!!

[Jürgen M.]

I'd love to take that one in a cross country trip through the US! Even there it would be a real eye catcher! 

 

[vincen47]

10 hours ago, Jürgen M. said:

I'd love to take that one in a cross country trip through the US! Even there it would be a real eye catcher! 

 

Me too! It would be so awesome to have something like this someday. A dream of mine.