Re: (erielack) Mock-up Model of Lake Hopatcong Station

["James Harr" <bnchmark_@_embarqmail.com>]

Bill and list;

Fantastic! What an amazing representation of that scene. I can't think of
any comments other than your mock-up looks great, the proportions appear to
be just right, and you have really captured the flavor of the scene. I look
forward to more as you progress, and especially how you are going to build
the actual structure models themselves.

Thanks for sharing!

Jim Harr




Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:35:56 -0600
From: "William E. Botkin" <webotkin_@_ecentral.com>
Subject: (erielack) Mock-up Model of Lake Hopatcong Station

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Hi fellow modelers,

As some of you know, I am modeling the DL&W in the Port Morris,NJ area in
the 1952-53 era in HO. For years, fellow lister Mike DelVecchio used to call
my pike the Delaware, Lackawanna and Lumber since it had no scenery:)   I
have finally started the scenery using Styrofoam sheets laminated together
to form the contours.  In order to work on the landscape contours at Lake
Hopatcong, I needed to mock-up some scale models of the station building,
the pedestrian walkway, elevator towers and Landing Road overbridge.  

Thanks to Paul Tupaczewski's help with some current-day photos and actual
dimension of the station building and Landing Road bridge, I was able to do
some VERY rough mock-ups using scraps of the Styrofoam and scaling from
various photos in the Morning Sun books and photos purchased from Bob
Pennisi.

If anyone out there has actual drawings of any of the Hopatcong buildings or
structures, I would appreciate hearing from you off-line.  Any constructive
comments on the mock-ups are also appreciated!

Bill Botkin
Centennial, CO


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