The first step in this project was the gathering of all data available on the monorail, and so far the amount of info has exceeded my wildest imagination. Many thanks to all those who have provided information and pictures. Shortly I will post the names of those who have been helpful with pictures etc.
After I collected enough stuff to draw out the Cab cars in 1/40th scale, I began carving a balsa wood plug to use in making the fiberglass molds for the bodies. This part of the project is now underway and should be complete in a few weeks. In addition, I started roughing out ideas for the under body chassis. This has also gotten near to completion with final design being finalized sometime this month.
12/29/9 OK OK...So it's been a while....I'm still working on the plug and hope to have the molds done soon..Unless something else happens to ruin the schedule again. I'm also working on a new scratch built 106" Extra 260 which will take priority over the monorail. The plug looks very good and should make a nice mold. In the meantime Dsiney released a monorail toy which I have yet to see. Anybody have any pictures of it?
1/6 Still working on plug but I did manage to get one of the monorail toys from WDW. It should be here in a few days.
08/01/02 OK here's the picture of the 106" Extra which is finally out of the shop and flying. Now on to the monorail (unless something else happens).
08/20/06 Hmmm.. something else
happened.... The monorail project has floundered while I worked and
flew my Models. The plug is for all intents done. Just can't
seem to find the time to do the molds. Oh well gonna be a long winter. Who
knows?
Feel free to e-mail me with specific questions or comments.