Researching the history of greeblies/kitbashing for a short YT documentary

[Joseph C. Brown]

While doing digging into what donor parts went into what I had assumed was a model engine part on the aft end Space Academy filming miniature was in actuality a burned out vacuum tube (a 'valve' in the U.K.?) from a 1960's-era hi-fi set, likely a 7591 power tube... there is always more to learn!

 

[bwayne64]

I remember back in the day asking my younger sister to save her Legg's eggs for me. She was like are you going to use them for Easter. I said no for the Star Destroyers engines and Y wing nacelles. The look on her face was priceless ; )

 

[joberg]

Same thing with my wife every time I fetch (from the recycling) the biscuit box to retrieve the ribbed plastic inner box

 

[bwayne64]

I've got boxes of old razors, deodorant containers, styrofoam packing shapes. I'm not a hoarder, really I'm not ! ; )

 

[chazzychaz]

Jason of star command had many ILM'ers on model duty, they used lots of stuff including disposable champagne glasses.

 

[Joseph C. Brown]

I'll be starting a build thread soon over in General Modeling for my 1/2-studio scale Space Academy / Jason of Star Command build; been compiling ref pics and screencaps and stockpiling parts since 2018. Lou Scheimer's book said that he could only afford to hire part the MCA-57 team, and made it plain in a video interview that he had minimal budget to work with. My best guess is that they (Jonathan Erland, Lorne Peterson, and Paul Huston(sp?) )used a fair number of leftover parts from their Star Wars model kit boxes. What I am doing is making screencaps from the dvd set, printing out sections at the scale I am building, and trying match near-equivalent small scale parts to that.

 

[joberg]

What would be fun is finding a very early use of a greeblie on a space ship or other Sci-Fi movie and identifying it

 

[Joseph C. Brown]

Agreed! Spotting the origin of a greeblie is a great feeling - especially when you get it correct!

 

[publiusr]

I sometimes wonder if a project is ‘worthy’ of a particular greeble. I have greebles that I wish I could get someone to scratch a whole hull around…to design tools to cut bottles just so….rump Galaxy class secondary hulls for the deodorant deflector dish thingy…I wish I had a scanner to resize greebles smaller or larger as 3D prints.

 

[kermet]

Yep, A bunch of everything I have in boxes in the old shop I never throw anything that looks useable anothe cool ship is the Battle Star the cylon ships and the vipers lot of cool model stuff going on there and yep I see the lemon juicer LOL Keep it going