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:

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.

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:

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