Emerald Night Variants

[Athos]

Has anyone redone the Emerald Night in different colors? I'm trying to build one from spare parts and am thinking about swapping out the green for dark grey... Maybe call it the Stormy Night... Before I order all the brick I need, I was wondering if anyone else has done it and how it looks.

Steve

[JopieK]

I have one in Baureihe livery (Black/Red).

[Murdoch17]

I have one in reddish brown instead of dark green.

[Athos]

Got any pictures?

Steve

[Murdoch17]

4 hours ago, Athos said:

Got any pictures?

Steve

These 7 stud wide 4-6-2 steam locos are very old (2013-ish) and were built from the remains of my two Emerald Night set 10194's. They are named the Emerald Night (dark green) and the Auburn Flyer (reddish brown). I got the 7-wide tender idea from Brickshelf in 2013, but don't remember who was the original designer.

Does this help?

[Athos]

Thanks. It does help.

Steve

[M_slug357]

I'm working on one in light bley with dark bley trim. Probably won't be done until xmas though....

[fred67]

We actually discussed this a long time ago in this thread.  I did the red variation myself, it looks great.  I still have not done the tweaks to make it my Hogwart's Express, but even as is it's a far better Hogwart's Express than any of the official sets.  There's quite a variety of colors you can do this in.

[jlassen]

Dumb question. I used LDD to swap out all the emerald green parts for bright orange parts.  But when I try and upload it to bricklink, it just gives me an error saying I have invalid parts.

Is there a way to identify which bricks in a given LDD file are "not real" from a color perspective? I'm willing to bet I can come up with a pretty solid Orange Night Train, with a little bit of Swapping out of some bricks that don't exist in Bright Orange... But I don't know how to go about ID-ing the offending bricks. Any thoughts, other than using the exported spread sheet and checking each one against a parts database by hand?

 

[supertruper1988]

I have found that if you make a private MOC on rebrickable.com, it is much better at helping identify the offending parts. once you have them corrected then you can export from rebrickable to bricklink.