Great Greeblies and Where to Find Them
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- So many times we are asked, "Where do you get those great greeblies." Well today we are going to do our best to share with you some suggestions of items you can use in your projects, as well as open your mind to the possibilities in everyday found object!
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Adam Savage calls it "high functioning hoarding" lol
krulty indeed! We love us some Adam Savage!!
Awww YES! ADAM is GREAT! My friend Mike is a good friend of Adam's. He and Adam have done some crazy stuff together! :D
I just about lost it when I saw the juice lid bit, I love those things and use them a lot in builds. I confess I am also a greeblie hoarder too, which kind of bummed my gf out until this Halloween when she decided she wanted to build a Borg costume haha. Now suddenly it’s all useful.
mickierat that’s fantastic! The juice kids really are incredibly useful. Would live to see the Borg costume when you finish it!
Your humor is great
And the video is great too!
@@exoplexo9667 Thank you!
I agree. A natural presenter and a professional presentation.
Almost as great as those greeblies. 😆
The word "junk" isn't in our dictionary!
I wish my mother would think so...
Indeed!!! LOL, i will re-edit ;)
When walking out and about, keep your eyes peeled on the ground (using caution crossing roads!) I find the odd bit here and the odd thing there, some of which are the most interesting pieces I have found. Plus, you are taking rubbish out of the environment too!
Your builds and influence over the years have made me look at stuff in a new light - I can't just pick something up and not wonder...THANKS!!
Thank you so much!
The idea is to think outside the box.
I'm an organizational hoarder as well. I have so much "junk" to use for props and costume pieces.
Awesome Sauce! You can never have too many greeblies at your disposal for props!
And here I was feeling alone until someone said organized hoarder. Chewie.....we're home
@@galenkelly4859 Welcome. Come on in. Watch your step. Don't hit your head. 😉
A greeblie Wookiee worm! That was awesome 👏
Joshua Trujillo right??? Who doesn’t want one! Thanks buddy!
The greatest entry of a vid ever
Jack Middleton thank you very much Jack!
This was one of the best videos on greeblies I’ve ever seen. Short but packed with info and good tips and an “out of the world” intro. Seriously, I was laughing so much at that.
Thank you!!!!
This great content. It's like linking the prop building game with economics and value hunting strategies!
Thank you!
It's total kitbashing, which is a skill. Seeing something that exists that can totally be something else.
You're a true maker. I'm happy I found your channel. You got a new subscriber.
Hi there!! Thank you so much! Welcome to the channel, we are so happy you found us and chose to subscribe!
This channel is so Underrated! Great tips and good quality.👍
Havenz very kind of you to say, we are glad you are here!
Fantastic! I just recently disassembled a projection TV and have been bit diving on it for weeks now. Great resource. Also, you have a truly inspiring personality and infectious enthusiasm! Thank you....
Glad it was helpful!
DUDE...….Awesome channel!!! Thank you so much for all the tips, instructions and of course the entertainment!!!!!
Thank you so much!! We really appreciate it!
"... and, I also enjoy toilet flanges ..."
Classic.
Hilarious too when taken out of context.
Thanks for this video, I really thought the casting of molds from knobs etc. was a great idea, if there is only a single knob but you need a set of three or four or twenty, well hey, now you are in business!
LOL! Thanks so much. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Molding and casting this stuff really helps when you are making a lot of projects, hope it helps you on yours. Thanks for watching!
Love it.... love taking this apart finding great greeblies!!. Thanks brother!!
You bet! Thank you!
As a 3D Artist this is giving me a lot of interesting ideas for scanning and implementing. Thanks.
Great to hear!
Robin Williams did kit-bashing as a kid before kit-bashing was a thing.
Also, bottle caps....soda bottles, empty medicine bottles, pepper tin lids....all great to add to the greeblie pile
Love it! Your intros are so much fun! And the videos are always fun and informative. Keep up the great work
Joshua Brooks hey there, thank you very much for the support!
This is fun, when it's the new year I'll be collecting an lot of parts and junk for my own greebling details, lol for what's happening in the background at the end of the video.
Thank you! Hope you collect a lot of stuff for your projects!
Rabbit holing from Adam savage talking greeblie for corridor digital. Great stuff guys!
Thank you
Transcendent entertainment!
I fear this video is dangerous for me though. I need a video on how to stop finding Greeblies.
Very eager for next week's project beginning! Gonna be so cool!
Needs More Subs LOL no way man, always be looking!!!
Just discovered this channel and I love it. I mean I consider fairly decent at star wars prop building but I'm getting so many good ideas and tips from this channel.
Welcome Joe! So happy to have you hear. Glad you are enjoying it!
Beautiful intro! Wonderful as always, Brian!
Gratuitous Sets thank you Mark!!!
I'm a chef, and the greeblies I find are amazing! Lids are great, of course, but you really have to look at some of the hand sanitizer/hand soap refills, the nozzles are incredible! Also, and you probably know this already, I hit the dollar stores not for the products, but for the vacuformed packaginng!
Been watcing your channel for a few days now and have started collecting Greeblies...took apart two old keyboards and an old printer last night...
Awesome!!! Thank you so much! Keyboards have amazing Greeblies!!!
Oh, I absolutely adore that UG shirt.
just awesome dude as a fellow builder of props and dioramas myself over the last year i have been collecting everything pop bottle tops to old plugs to ice cube trays that one am using on my Alien 1979 Tracker here in the UK we have £1 shops and charity shops and they are full of very cool greeblies from cheap toys to household items and like you i have been keeping them in stored boxes and bins with labels on to tell me what they are just wanted to say thank you for inspiring me again dude you rock
Adam Crump that’s fantastic!!! The 79 alien tracker is such a cool prop, it’s still one of those on my prop bucket list of must builds! Those inexpensive shops are definitely the place to go to find parts. Thanks for watching!
@@TheSmugglersRoom will you ever build that prop i am in the process of building one my self but its not screen accurate but pretty close they are amazing
Adam Crump 100% . . . But not sure when. It’s been one of those that I have wanted to make for a really long time. I’m sure mine won’t be screen accurate, I tend to get a bit to outside the lines 😬
@@TheSmugglersRoom i found the actually tv they used for the base of the prop on ebay for around $30 do you have a facebook page dude would love to send you the links to the screen accurate parts i have found on ebay
Adam Crump that is awesome! What a great price for the tv too. Yep, we have a FB page and would love to get details from you. If you go to the link in the description of this episode you'll see our FB link there. Thanks!!
ANOTHER EPIC VIDEO BRIAN THOMPSON!!! I LOVE ALL THE TIPS AND KNOWLEDGE YOU POSSESS AND SHARE. ❤ MTFBWY AND YOUR FAMILY BROTHER.
Much appreciated
Great video, very inspiring!
Hudsonhighlander glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
Aw geez, I was wearing headphones and everything. xD
Awesome Video! Organization is key!
I feel like I'm constantly cleaning and organizing in order to be more efficient. Its so awesome that you know exactly where all of your greeblies are!
Thank you, organization is totally key!
Love the enthusiasm here- subbed.
Thank you much!
I love prints for bits.
I love this! I love scratch bashing!!
Thank you!
You had me at the air freshners on the boba jet pack. (As said by Tom Cruise, you had me at hello)
LOL
Love the shirt! Greeblie much!
Indeed we do greeblie much! Thank you!
Good opening... very entertaining. I’m making some spaceship and mech models; Christmas presents for my Grandkids. Your videos are helpful. Thank you.
Thank you so much, appreciate you watching. Sounds like the grandkids are going to have a great Christmas!
I cannot express how jealous I am of your Greeblie collection. Another great thing to take apart is a VHS reader. They have these awesome parts.
Bryce Ross much appreciated! I’m glad there are others out there that feel that way about this kind of stuff👍
@@TheSmugglersRoom yup. I was astounded to find that there were people out there like me. I always called greeblies "pieces of character"🤣
Love the intro
Thanks for the great info.
You bet!
I've got some great greeblies I've acquired through the years but never got around to using for anything yet. One example is some cool looking plastic parts that came in the packaging of some pool filter cartridges.
Ooh! Those sound interesting. I have greeblies that I’ve had for 10 years or more that are waiting to be used. Just can’t rush it right? Have to wait for that perfect fit I always say 🤣
Can't give this enough thumbs up! The bins in my garage are rather empty and in need of filling up...
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it . Now get out there and fill your bins!
@@TheSmugglersRoom Yessir!
I laughed about the cap for the "Simply" bottle. I have been hoarding those for a while now.
Lol! Awesome
Great ideas. Thanks.
You bet! Thanks for watching!
Love it!
I'm an organizational hoarder as well. You should see what is behind me, I'm in my workspace and yes I save everything too! While I have not seen a greeblie Wookiee worm yet, there is something living under the shelves that is can never quite get a good look at! :-D Not sure if I should be
This really helps me out! I need some greeblies becuase I am planning to make a small scale droid. Thanks for the video! Keep up the good work! -Creator Everywhere
Glad I could help!
I just found your channel... awesome bro! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much, so glad you are enjoying it!
1/12 scale greebles can be a challenge if you dont have some spare toys or models lying around. Ive found I have to train my brain to see them. of course there are the obvious containers and straws. Cutting small rectangles squares and circles out of styrene is a must. The packages that printer ink comes in has big potential Need to hit up the thrift shops for some junk toys
Yeah, they are a challenge aren't they. Small rectangles our of styrene are certainly a must!
@@TheSmugglersRoom Im currently building a Throne room for my marvel legends Dr Doom, but I'm doing a twist on it. Instead of the usual medieval look I'm going for more of a steam punk. So you can imagine the amount of pipes, control panels wires and various greebles i will.need lol
I used to work for Douglas Aircraft back in the eighties. We had a salvage yard where the company would get rid of aircraft scrap a veritable treasure trove of greeblies. In fact I recall seeing several pieces that were used on the Empire Strikes Back. Just a suggestion if you can find an aircraft scrapyard you can find great stuff. Also I was at a local car show and guy had taken a seventies small postal service van and repainted the exterior to look like a B-52. He dressed the interior to look like aircraft with decommissioned ejection seats for the driver and passenger. I always thought this idea would be great to do as a Star Wars style vehicle-The mind boggles. Can't wait for the Polaris modification.
Thank you Kevin, i never really contemplated it would be possible to access old aircraft scrap. I knew they did that sort of thing for the films, but I sort of figured it was out of reach for the average person. Do you have any suggestions on where to start? Would you just look up "Aircraft Salvage Yard" for information on the web? Thanks so much for the suggestion, its a great idea! Appreciate you watching!
Great video and a fun intro! I've been doing the same things with my own collection of greeblies, nurnies and GNDNs for over 50 years and we use many of the same sources. (You could say that I was a "junk-basher early adopter".) In addition to the sized totes, I have a shelved wall full of transparent plastic shoe-boxes -- they work well for medium storage and pre-grouping small parts for specific project ideas. Thumbs up and a new subscriber, brother geek. - Entropy Workshop
I just heard the term "greeblie" today. But this looks an awful lot like what one does when making a steampunk project. :)
Awesome as always, would love to see a video on how you make your moulds and resin casting
Grant Schrader thank you. We will definitely put together a molding and casting video, thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks! Really helpful. I can’t wait for the large build!
Cocayoo glad it had value for you. Big project coming up next week!
Love this show, always great and always funny!
PURROS Leukos thank you!
Great video man. Look forward to them each week and this one is especially a fun one... I love finding greeblies. Thanks for sharing!
Prop Rocks great to hear, thank you. We love to pass on what tips we can.
Great ideas
darrin plank thank you!
AWESOME !!!
Thank you!
Love it! And your T-shirt too,👍
Ed Perello thank you!!!
This is great!
Agent__Sam thank you, glad you liked it!
I have a bucket full of screw off lids from single serve applesauce packages. They make neat air intakes on things
YES!!! Great idea. Lids are the best!!!
I love the greebly worm!
idiotluggage thank you!
Great I don't want to try and justify why I have all these bins of miscellaneous parts laying around. Awesome video can't wait for the next one.
Michael Potase consider your bins of texturalized wonders approved!!!
Great videos.
Thank you!
I remember back in 2011 at a Star Wars celebration, we had a squad and we approached some of the guilds/clans/factions (both rebel and empire side) and asked them if we could start a smuggler only group and we got shot down faster than Solo on a first date. We got laughed at, snarked at, told to leave by the rebels (even some smart ass B-wing pilot cosplay player made a smart ass comment about it. That's when I had to fire back and asked him him if he knew the craft that was the pre-cursor to the X-wing and he didn't. Told him it was the Z-95 Headhunter and I have piloted it in the sim, along with his precious B-wing, so go pound sand. =) ) This is when the Celebration was lacking in some areas. It had the Troopers, Bounty Hunters, all the Rebel pilots, Empire officers, Sith and Jedi. But no Smugglers. It would have been great to see a section modeled after a cantina with a bunch of shady characters just lounging around, conducting "deals". But oh well, we got shot down for our ideas with everyone we approached. I love your channel and I think you would go crazy with my stash. I have so many action figures, you would baby seal club me and steal them all.
You know I have always wondered why there wasn't a "Smugglers" group like so many other groups. It's a bit shocking that it would get shot down. Seems like a perfectly logical group of Cosplayers. You certainly always see Smugglers at the conventions. Sounds like you also have one heck of a collection! Bravo!
@@TheSmugglersRoom Yeah, my friends, their wives were all on board for the smuggler cosplay. (she just wanted to be a better version of Mara Jade, minus the saber..and bigger..umm...anyways..) We were stock piling toy blasters from goodwill to start building our own custom blasters. I even bought a metric crap ton of military cold war surplus leather pouches, mag pouches, holsters, stuff you would see in the movies. Then I sent e-mails out to the certain groups that i will not name, since I don't want to look like I am trashing them. I got snarky e-mails back and it killed it for us. Now i'm building a retro computer to make it look like something you would find on the Falcon or an X-wing, using a older APU/mobo combo in one of those old school "rocker gamer" chairs that rest on the floor (plus they are big guy friendly and they allow for thrashing). But i'm mounting a flight stick to it. The System will work through Bluetooth and i'll be making a Rebel pilot helmet with Bluetooth that syncs to the computer. Once that is done, it will be time to boot up X-wing versus Tie Fighter and all the other X-wing games. I still have them all. Plus you can nab them off of steam. Nothing like doing the trench run in a Y-wing! If you ever end up forming a Smuggler guild or want to build the "X-wing chair", let me join!
Lenses are one thing can ALWAYS find a place in a star wars build of any scale. Very cool video today! I believe the word Greeblie was actually made up by George Lucas when talking to his model shop about accessorizing the starship models.
Mig Monkey indeed! They add a great look. You are correct about Lucas. He “coined” the phrase when trying to explain all those textures. I’m also a big fan of Nurnies, and I believe that was the term that most UK model builders used.
@@TheSmugglersRoom Nurnies huh? I'd never heard that one but I like it!
Great video 👏 I need to organize my hoarding of gribbles 😉
Iván Gonzales thank you. Yes you do 😉
The Smugglers Room: Make random cool thing
Me: *spies random small object on desk* Ooh, a greeblie!
Also me, 10 minutes later: The Great Greeblie Hunt of 2021 has begun!!
🤣🤣🤣 awesome!!!
Brian your great friend and awsome geek. I hope one day to be able to meet you in person and take a pic. Maybe sign one of projects!! Thanks brother!!
Thank you Ron!
Wow cool 😎
Thanks!
Hahaha you should get into necromunda or kill team, you would have an insane blast building scifi scenery tables
Best intro ever?? Hilarious.
Thank you!
Great tips video! Thanks!
Andy Pugh thank you for watching, glad this added a bit of value.
Hey brother love watching the vids.. keep looking up and keep making something out of nothing..your amazing brother..
Thank you Ron!
Another great video my friend!!
Eric Ortiz thank you!
That intro is great
Thank you very much! So glad you liked it!
Maybe I missed your reply in the comment section, but you do have a DIY video for the Boba Fett jet pack?
Greg Gutshall hey there, not specifically for the pack in this episode. However, we do have two jet pack on the work bench to go along with a HUGE double Mando costume project that you will start seeing on the channel very soon . . . I promise!
@@TheSmugglersRoom That's going to be awesome! Boba Fett is my favorite Star Wars character and super stoked about the new Mando series.
Subscribed to your channel, thanks for the great work!
I'm not a hoarder. I'm a Master Consolidator!
There you go!
1:15 “…their technological corpses!”
What were the sound effect greeblies, for the wookie worm thing?
thanks
Thank you
Tha veri cool
As a former mechanic I have collected many odd item's for build projects. I am like you if it is broken it gets taken apart lol.
Awesome!
Ok I went to buy some Renewzit air fresheners for my jetpack and they changed the design of the tip on top. 😫 Its no longer a flat tip, its a sharp angle or a flower design. I need 2 older ones like yours but cant find them now. 😭
oh no Todd! I didn't realize they changed it! nooooooooooooo!!
A friend of mine owns a TV repair shop. He has tons of stuff that he has to throw away. Find a mom and pop one near you and go tell him you want his junk and what you will do with it. He might give it for free or charge you $20 for a trunk load of it.
Jokeal friends that own electronics stores are the best! That’s a greeblies hunter’s paradise!!!
With those projector lenses you could make a replica of the scopedog from votoms
MeldThe Steel whoa!!! I had to look that one up, but that’s a cold bot!
@@TheSmugglersRoom it's actually power armor, but yeah those lenses would be perfect hell some might say it's a sign
My greeblie storage and organization drives me crazy! Have you found the cheapest containers that can be found?
That's my biggest issue, there are SO MANY options for storage containers and bins out there, and most of them aren't cheap! What do you prefer to use? I only recognize the large yellow Stanley type organizers that you've got. I have a couple of those, but they're overflowing, and they're expensive!
I've pretty much settled on what I use for larger containers, the contico-style crates, with the two flaps on top. (That's what most folks in movies and TV use, Prop Masters and such.)
But have you found good cheap options for the flatter type organizers?
Sorry for the late reply. I have never been 100% satisfied with my storage, nor the way I store them in the shop. You are right, the bin options are endless. I found the black bins I use at "the container store" several years back, and I liked them because they match, and they stack easily. They no longer sell the version I have, but the following link has similar sizes. If I ever find a better solution I will update you all. Here is the link to bins like mine: www.containerstore.com/s/storage/plastic-bins-baskets/sterilite-black-stacker-totes/12d?productId=11007874
@@TheSmugglersRoom cool, thanks for that! What I'm really looking for are the type with separators, or individual bins, for the smaller parts. Just haven't found the perfect solution. I've got a bunch, all different kinds, and they're either too shallow, or too expensive! I reckon there's a middle ground, but don't feel like I've found it, yet.
Anyway, keep up the great work!!
omg Mini-Gonk is awesome.
TheOldSkoolSP thank you!
You forgot ice trays. Never forget your ice tray.
John Smith I know, we totally did, but we remembered them here . . . ua-cam.com/video/kV7QlJzzs9o/v-deo.html
Please tell me that all of the retro tech you take apart is fully dead before harvesting them for greblies
We have not stripped down any fully working tech, most if not all are recycled or dead units.
Certain deodorant tubes can be used to make scale Star Trek Federation Photon Torpedoes.
Great example! Yes!!!
Literally everything I see now I see as a potential Greeblie or something. xD
Ethan Cox me too!!!! Thanks for watching!
I wish that R2D2 display had a build video
We need to do that!
Where does one get images for data pads or screens?
we made ours. Have a look: ua-cam.com/video/Hmo0fyMbZUs/v-deo.html
please add CC or subtitles. would really like to know what you are saying
so sorry, we will work on that. We really need to get that done asap!
Greeblies like tibbles but less fluffy.
LOL
👏👏👏
Thanks