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Monorail Purple

Tocpe — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:41:23 +0000

Ask and ye shall receive, Phoenixnight.

The Mark IV Monorail is complete

Tocpe — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:18:46 +0000

…or at least as far as I’m going to take it at this point.

Click the images to see a larger version. This weekend I’m going to put the monorail into the EPCOT Center model and see how well it all fits. I’ll post a render when it’s done. It should look pretty cool.

I’ll be moving back to the main EPCOT Center model now. This should be fun,

I would like thank a few of the folks that helped me with research and ensuring the accuracy of the model: yellowmonorail.com, George McGinnis, Brad Koerner & Stephen Getsy.

Thanks for the help guys. I couldn’t have done it without ya.

Disney Mark IV Monorail Model Update – August 5, 2007

Tocpe — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:15:53 +0000

Yes, it’s been a little while since my last update. I have been working on the monorail, it’s just been touch and go for the last month. I’ve been working on the details of the monorail and as you can see below, I’m still tweaking the materials for the monorail. I have to finish setting up my lighting and rendering environment and then I’ll finish up the details.

I realize the nose looks awful pointy in this shot, it’s just an optical illusion. I have been very careful in matching the profile of the nose as possible. As I render the monorail from other angles it’ll show the true geometry of the model.

Here’s what I have so far:

Disney Mark IV Monorail Model Update – June 28, 2007

Tocpe — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:15:58 +0000

I’ve been tweaking the nose of the monorail trying to get it to look as close as possible to my reference materials. Tonight I worked on laying out and cutting the door to the driver’s cabin. The other night I also added the headlights to the front of the nose. (Although you can’t see them in the rendering below) Next, I’ll be copying the door down the side of the body of the engine and then I’ll do the same for the windows.

Here’s a look at the progress so far:

I think since I haven’t really gotten much help with researching the details of the Mark IV, I’m going to model just the exterior for now. Maybe someone will come along and help out later.

Mark IV Monorail Model – June 13, 2007

Tocpe — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:34:55 +0000

The next step in the EPCOT Center Project is to build a monorail for the monorail station. Since the model is set in 1983, the monorail is a Mark IV model. (see this post for more info)

I started by modeling the nose of the monorail:

This is a smoothed version of the above mesh:

Next I extended the body further:

You’ll notice there’s only a half of the monorail built. Since the body is symmetrical, I only have to build half of it then I can mirror the model to complete the body. Stay tune for more updates on the monorail project.