Daedalus304 Posted April 25, 2012 Hello all! The next train I'm posting this week is my 8-wide Emerald Night! The Emerald Night is one of my favorite LEGO sets, and in my opinion one of the most beautiful engines TLG's released. However, even though it's a larger engine it was starting to look a bit small in comparison to my 8-wide MOCs; and that had to change. Looking around the internet, I was unable to find any 8-wide Emerald Nights, so although it's a MOD I figured I would share it anyways. My goal with this model was to keep the spirit and design as in-tact as I could, same amount of wheels, same piston design, I wanted it to be easily identifiable as an Emerald Night. So the things on the my modification/construction agenda were as follows: The boiler needed to be as close to fully "round" as I could manage (The original was a bit off-shape), I wanted to add a more prominent running board over the wheels AND I wanted it to sit a plate lower, plus I wanted there to be an accurate light gap between the boiler and the floor below. And last, but not least, that teeny tender needed to be expanded. Gallery, once moderated. For the most part I was able to build it by combining two engines, although I did need a couple extras. It took me probably 5 or 6 iterations before i settled on a design I really liked. Just looking at the 8-wide may not show many appreciable differences, although my 8-wide EN dwarfs an unmodified one with the extra bulk. There were plenty of extra parts leftover, enough for me to construct another engine which I shall also post shortly. I hope you all like the engine! Any comments or criticisms are welcome! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lightningtiger Posted April 25, 2012 One of my favourite Lego sets of all time the EN and your modifications are fantastic, I them....even more realistic now ! Excellent re-engineering there 'Daedalus304', though I'll leave mine as it is. Brick On ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roamingstop Posted April 26, 2012 (edited) One of my favourite Lego sets of all time the EN and your modifications are fantastic, I them....even more realistic now ! Excellent re-engineering there 'Daedalus304', though I'll leave mine as it is. Brick On ! I do remember seeing a larger version of the EN somewhere on this forum (about 2 years back) but this is a nice clean rendition which works very well. I bought a few spare EN engines to do pretty much the same thing - as I also wanted wider, longer carriages. In this scaling it just looks correct. I also bought two to make the Garret engine from Sava Works, but not got around to it yet... Perhaps an 8 wide rendition would look the part [edit] Could not find the link, but an interesting Americanised one I did miss Edited April 26, 2012 by roamingstudio Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Daedalus304 Posted April 28, 2012 One of my favourite Lego sets of all time the EN and your modifications are fantastic, I them....even more realistic now ! Excellent re-engineering there 'Daedalus304', though I'll leave mine as it is. Brick On ! Thank you! Someday I may try to put together an LXF file in case anyone wants to try to mod theirs like this. I do remember seeing a larger version of the EN somewhere on this forum (about 2 years back) but this is a nice clean rendition which works very well. I bought a few spare EN engines to do pretty much the same thing - as I also wanted wider, longer carriages. In this scaling it just looks correct. I also bought two to make the Garret engine from Sava Works, but not got around to it yet... Perhaps an 8 wide rendition would look the part [edit] Could not find the link, but an interesting Americanised one I did miss Modifying the carriages is definitely on my future to-do list, although after seeing those pictures I'm fairly certain I want them 7-wide now (I'd been at odds trying to figure out what scale for the cars). I'm not sure how I missed that other engine, it looks nice with the dark red on it; although it's visually more different than I was shooting for. I too have been eyeing Sava's Garret engine, perhaps someday soon I'll have that alongside the EN. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roamingstop Posted April 30, 2012 I found the other 8 wide thread here by Captain Greenhair. Also a slightly Americanised one - but some beautiful coaches. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Rip Posted May 11, 2012 The Emrald night is one of my favorites . The MOD of it doens look that different Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jamigra Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Greetings Daedalus304, I have only just come across your post about an 8 -wide mod. Do you have instructions for how to make this 8-wide mod? Cheers, J Edited February 8, 2021 by jamigra Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Stevie Posted February 17, 2021 That would be interesting. I love the EN and still run it at shows, with a string of coaches not much different from the originals. Love to rebuild it all at 8 wide someday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
