Adam Savage Explains the Universal Greeblie!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Whether you call them greeblies, greebles, or nurnies, these small plastic pieces are an essential part of modelmaking kit-bashing. For an upcoming One Day Build, Adam shows off the universal greeblie and talks about how this piece was extensively used in the ILM model shop. It's something you can't unsee when looking at classic scale models from our favorite films!
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Adam Savage has the single most infectious sense of passion I've ever seen someone exude. I've never seen someone get so many chances to talk about something they love with their entire being, he's absolutely living the dream.
I know of only one other person who exudes that kind of enthusiasm and childlike wonder. This lady (an opera singer by trade) has the most honest face, and while admittedly plenty cute, radiates genuine glee at every discovery and I just adore her. th-cam.com/video/vdR6-NEoOsk/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
This video needed some examples/photos of greeblies in use.
Cylon raider from Battlestar Galactica 1978. They are very visible on the monogram model kit.
Only way this vid could have been better was a few movie stills actually showing those greeblies.
I really miss the use of models in film. Every once in a while I still see one and I'm so grateful!
Agreed! Personally my favorite will always be the NCC-1701-D
xKatjaxPurrsx nah
It did have some gorgeous curves.
I like when they kit-bash the model and then scan it into the computer in high resolution for CGI work. You can get wonderful detail from CGI artists that you just let doodle on a model for as long as possible, but it starts to feel to idealized or artistically designed, like it was a painting, rather than having the limitations you would get from having real mechanical parts that have their own requirements. The newer Star Wars films have been careful to keep that look, but you see things like the Kelvin timeline Start Trek ships that are way too smooth and look more like what the concept artist drew for the design instead of what the engineers and builders actually put together.
It's one of the things I love about Orville, they are using a physical model whenever they can
This was very cool but truth be told I could hear you talk about anything. You could spend 2 hours talking about the history of cardboard and my eyes would be glued to the screen. I love the passion you show while talking about the things you enjoy.
I was wondering if he has a toung ring.
Adam is so passionate and gets so excited it inspires us to try new things. Thank you tested for being so awesome and sharing your passion with the world.
I love watching Adam just because when he talks about his work there’s so much passion and enthusiasm!
I want to see those buckets
Yeah. He walks off as if he's gonna go get one but then the video ends!
This better be a whole other video
you doudt his hoarding abilities lol
Those buckets don't exist unless we see them.
I wonder if anyone ever built the actual kit.
I'm a little disappointed that there weren't any examples of it in use on various models
In researching the "universal greeblie" online, I found a site that discussed what the actual, physical part was on the full size original rail gun. It is the railcar axle endcap and journal box. Given your propensity for researching stuff and tracing the history of items, I'm wondering if you have tried to add an original full size part to your collection?
that bucket of greeblies had better be in the build video, or else i'm gonna be super disappointed
I didn’t even know what some of the things you talked about was till now, and I am such a big fan, and I started out with the amazing one day builds.
And also I am probably one of your youngest fans,
I'm just happy to have learned the word "greeblie" ^-^ I love watching people get excited about such little things.
I've been collecting bits for years and only recently heard the term Greeblies. And now with this Universal Greeblie I am re-inspired to put something together over the winter. Your excitement Is infectious, thanks Mr. Savage, for the smile and happiness I'm feeling right now! That tree must be expensive though, given that it contains the Holy Grail of Greeblies!
My favourite "Kitbashing" is one of the various Star Trek ship models, where they used highlighter pens as the warp nacelles to create the Cheyenne class, I never noticed it until I read about it on Ex Astris Scientia, clever work... :)
There is a level of knowledge and expertise being displayed here that is truly amazing to see
Reminds me of a kitbash I did for my warhammer 40k ork army where I used left over parts to make a battlewagon
I came here from corridor digital. Rabbit holing on Adam talking about the universal greeblie. What a trip!
Now on ebay these models just went up hundreds of dollars lol
The last re-release was 2015. Unless someone wants a vintage kit like Adams, it's only about $50 for a brand new model kit.
Smart thing to do would be to get the kit and just make molds of the dome. Then you could sell them by the hundreds. Pack of 10 for a dollar, make your money back in no time.
I found an original kit that was only around $40-$45. And the newer ones are a lot easier to find at a good price
It's like the Wilhelm scream of the props department
I think it has been. If I recall, neither TLJ or Solo used it. That hasn't stopped other movies from continuing to use it. I'm pretty sure I heard it in the new Jumanji.
Shadowcaster Zero An action scene is not an action scene with out a Wilhelm. You take that back. :v
ShadowcasterZero My kids love it. Maybe we have just seen too many movies. :P
@Jon Glass: Lol, I just said the same thing without realizing you already said it. (sorry)
Damn ya beat me to it Jon! Was exactly my thought too.
I love listening to someone who is super passionate about something explain something I know nothing about. Thanks Adam!
To sit down and have a cut of tea with Adam, would just be wonderful.
I'm most likely not the first person to say this but my family and I love you and the others on Mythbusters! I was so happy to see you on Imgur and now here! Thanks to all the laughter and science!
He's so excited about his work it makes me happy
This is just about my favorite video Tested has made.
Adam, you can't mention your bucket loads of greeblies without SHOWING US the bucket loads of greeblies! 💜
I love Adam’s excitement and enthusiasm.
This is instantly one of my favourite Tested videos. I'm in love.
As a builder of starships, I highly recommend you the old Space Battleship Yamato "micro kits" for greebles!
Perfectly cast styrene vents, tiny guns, rocket exhaust, -you name it!
Perfect for kitbashing or superdetailing.
I swear I could listen to Adam Savage explain anything... and this video proves it!
Buckets of Greeblies is my new ska band name.
Das Grinch oooh. Ska.
... hodown next?
Adam’s enthusiasm is infectious!
I freaking love how excited he was about the greeblies
Hasegawa makes my favorite motorcycle model kits. The detail is absolutely incredible.
Now I am going to be looking for the part in all films I watch with kit bashed props!
I randomly saw the Tested "Model Making for Movies" video from 2012 that mentioned the Universal Greeblie.
Wondered if there was a more in-depth explanation for it and noticed this was uploaded to Tested two days ago. How serendipitous! ...Or TH-cam algorithms making the 2012 video relevant again!
Adam. I'm just learning 3D animation and have been modeling as an hobbyist for a few years. This gave me so many ideas.
Never heard this called "Greeblie" before. Always heard it as "Greeble"
The original has an I sound at the end, spelled "greeblie" or "greeblee".
I find that the word "greeble" is found almost only within prop/model making, and most often among _digital_ effects artists.
I would speculate that it originates from a misspelling or misreading.
The word is older than motion pictures. It means something small and unidentifiable, such as lint, grit, _bugs_ etc. An example: th-cam.com/video/OarKqZuI4KE/w-d-xo.html
There's people in the Space Engineers game community who use the term a lot for tweaking the details of ships, lol. I wondered were it came from.
Jay Sprenkle I only know this kind of stuff as bitz.
In miniature wargaming, they're "greebles" and the parts used to make them are "bitz"
I now have a need to see buckets of Greeblies!! It was a hunger which I did not know I have!
I like the extra bit at the end of the video, nice touch.
The universal greeblie is the grease cover to the gun's carriage ( wheels ). I first heard the term from Shep Paine's diorama details for the Monogram kits where he raided train shops for brass and plastic detailing.
i would LOOOOOVE an Adam Savage narrated documentary on Kit Bashing!
Some company needs to create a "kit" consisting solely of greeblies, hundreds and hundreds of greeblies.
That'd be great, replicas of common and/or famous greeblie parts.
I can not tell you how man times I have haunted eBay looking for this exact thing. Especially since I started modding HotWheels for Gaslands. I would happily pay $10 for a kit of random parts.
There's this: th-cam.com/video/bZ6XLACOtUo/w-d-xo.html&feature=share
I bet a someone 3D printer could do it, just print and sell boxes of greeblies.
I saw that. Love the idea. Can't wait to give it to my kiddo.
I'm a tabletop wargamer, I love kitbashing so much. Currently have about 4-5kgs of Bitz from dozens of different kits and games.
For an example of using it, check Adam's video "Adam Savage's One-Day Builds: Kitbashing and Scratch-Building". Especially near the end.
True story, about 12 hours ago i was talking to my cousin about making spaceships from balsa woods, styrene and kit bashing for various tabletop games... Im definitly sending this video to him !
Now I want to see Adam detail out a scratch build with all the greeblies he's got! I would love to see a closer a look at that collection of them!
Years ago I was a ritualy avid fan of Myth Busters. Life gets in the way, things change. Thought I'd come back and check up see what Mad Max Adam Savage has been up to. I started by watching a string of Comicon on TH-cam. In one episode you mentioned "Ted Talks". Adam, ty so much for connecting me to the voice of so many freak'n awesome peeps. (I don't know if, "Ted Talks" is a name such as Jethro Tull). Adam, your a wild crazy guy and an anticdote to deep thought. You provide me with a hole in the ice where I can breath and laugh my f*n ass off. gg! So, tysvm for directing me with one finger to Ted and tickling both my funny bones. Chaos can be fun and a blast. Yes, I announce Adam Savage my embassador to relief. DB 😆
Thanks for sharing that Adam. Love you guys.
Adam my eagle eyes spotted my all time fav starship in your pile of kit bash kits , how could you desecrate a classic like that ..you savage..... Lol keep up the great work sir.
This is a cool style of video. Short but letting Adam share a cool piece of information that most people wouldn't know about.
I came from the VFX Artists React n° 62 from Corridor Crew and because of the "greeblies" Adam was talking.
Same
I like the history lesson aspect. Thanks to these vids I now see the parts in movies and stuff which is cool!
It's a sad day when you lose audio. Saved by that shotgun mic though. I love learning about this history of this objects in film. Thanks for the vid!
Too bad you didn’t show a closeup of the universal greeblie on a video dedicated to it... it was its time for a closeup🙈
Agreed, I was waiting for a sexy slow panning ultra close-up. And nothing.
There is a Thingiverse model for it www.thingiverse.com/thing:2053541
MarkkuJii another reason to get a resin printer. ;)
Afraid so... :D
Well, I did just pay off my credit card, so it could be time to celebrate... And put more charges on it. :D
It'd be great to see a One Day Build based around kit bashing, sounds like a super fun way to build and give detail to models.
Really fun stuff. It mirrors my love for Lego that never died down.
The tile, modified 1 x 2 grille is something universal as well.
Im going to be seeing that everywhere from now till the end of days :P
I always wondered what the universal greeblie Adam always t alked about was. Love this stuff.
Adam worked on Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys? Awesome. Fun and under-rated movie, whose scenes in orbit still hold up well. I'm going to see if I can find Adam's name in the credits. Yes! He's there under Chief Model Makers. This made my day.
Thanks, Adam. Like I don't have enough models in my stash already. Now this one is going on my "gotta buy list". You can bet I'll be using the UG on my Scope Class interceptor... Yes, a discarded Scope bottle.
I love how Lego's Saturn V Command Module comes with Universal Greeblies.
When I was a seven year oli little kid I loved Mythbusters, now looking at one of my heros doing the thing that i love the most: crazy inventions, that blow my mind, is some sort of emotional.
Adam savage was the best mythbuster by far and I still like to watch everything he does.
You are one of a kind bro, loved it
I wish we could have seen the models you mentioned using these on.
this is what I call nerdy! :D Gotta love that passion for such a small thing.
Oh so greeblies are nurnies and nurnies are greeblies ;D
That's incredible that they scanned some of this to use digitally in the newer films!
I build kitbashes on a regular basis. I use model kits that parts "talk" to me. But when I have to cannibalize kits for parts, for detailing, my favorite kits are :
- Anakin podracer AMT
- T-34/76 russian tank, 1/48 scale from Hobby Boss
Those two are so full of detailed parts it's just insane !
But I cannibalize the Queen Mary 2 1/400 scale from revell, great deal of parts too, and the Mir Station. Used for my Star Destroyer (kitbashed from an incomplete SD model kit).
If by any chance you want to see the result for the Star Destroyer, here is a link to my youtube video, it's in french but the picture is all that matter :)
th-cam.com/video/Vv2fiYl9VwI/w-d-xo.html&list=PL4UlrwW3VHHnpfsUSA4s-sTWuiMwr-yUc
When Westwood was making Blade Runner: The Videogame they had no original props to scan and weren't allowed to use anything from the original, anyways so they had to create everything from scratch. Since everything in the movie was spare kits on top of existing buildings the lead dev came up with an idea. He said you can only use free models from the model store which was extremely limited at the time (this was the mid 90's). They basically recreated LA the same way the original set was built. It's why while you can tell it looks different the feel is the same. They had to recreate EVERYthing.
Would be interesting to see a compilation which shows its use in films
Fantastic! I always wished I could have multiple Tamiya Tiger kits, but... yeah. Again - when is the book/DVD/ series...?
adam should build a model for a film again. thatd be a cool process to watch
It would be amazing to see you complete a kit-bashing project with someone in the industry.
This is so nerdy. I love it!
Every scratch builder/kitbasher needs a greebly box
It would be really cool to do a video (maybe one day build?) of you building a kit bashed space ship.
It would be really interesting to find the original designer of that kit and see if he's realised what he created.
Actually, it would be really interesting to see how any model kit was created, definitely a good fit for Tested I think.
Hey Adam, I had this idea of you building the XS1 Goliath suit from the game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. It would be awesome to see something like that come to reality!
So this is the Wilhelm scream of model makers?
Isn't it weird and really cool at the same time that every nerdy niche of every industry seems to have that *one* thing that binds the galaxy together? 😃
kit-bashing seems like it would be awesome fun
I imagine someone has made a model for 3D printing by now?
Cars Simplified yes, on thingiverse already
As of two hours ago. You can now find it on thing-a-verse. www.thingiverse.com/thing:2986836
Nice!
Pretty cool timing as well.
Shapeways www.shapeways.com/product/RQA9HDLN7/hammerhead-corvette-1-2700-scale. Detail parts and kits.
Speaking as someone with a resin 3d printer, it's really a last resort. If I can get similar pre-molded plastic parts cheaply, they're a lot easier to work with, and I assure you mass produced plastic will always be cheaper than 3d printing (yes, 3d printing technology improves, but so does injection molding and such)
This is why we love Adam.
Kit bashing first done at Gerry Andersons Century 21 in the sixties in Derek Meddings work.
Build the tank on the next one day build!
Annnnnd now the price of this kit just shot up like a Saturn V rocket (if it can be found at all). Thanks for not telling me about this privately before posting this video ADAM! sheesh...
Simply amazing
Great stuff, I love learning about things like this :)
I don't know the specific terminolgy in English but the universal greeblie is the lid of the oil 'pot' that holds the axis of a set of train wheels? Cool.
I had forgotten that you worked for ILM until now.
So it seems like Adam is more or less done with professional prop making and has really been a nice fit for Tested with showing off his collections, doing one day builds etc. Has Jamie retired to go and hide under a big rock?
Hey Adam my name is Dylan Bianco and I’m 17. I have been trying to make a working web shooter like spider man. I came very close a couple of times but they were all bulky and over sized. I use fishing line and was thinking about using nylon 6 10 as a form of liquid webs! But finally to get to the point... I think it would be awesome if you could try and make a functional web shooter like Spider Man! You might be able to do it in a one day build episode. It would be so cool to see a child hood icon of mine make a dream come true! I challenge you to make a web shooter!
A few screen grabs from films and showing individual greeblies would be nice...
It's the Wilhelm Scream of model making!
This is the Wilhelm Scream of kit-bashing and model making.
Amazing video!
If its okay with you guys, Can you guys show us how you mold those kits?
I know "greeblies" from the Starmade starship design community as the collective noun "greeble", as in, "You need more greeble on the underside of the hull."
OMG Adam send me a bucket of greeblies ! Those would look great on the 1/107 sci-fi building interior Im currently working on.
I'd be really interested to know what Adam thinks of Games Workshop (mainly Warhammer series) and their knock-offs as a modeller.