Where did the term Greebles come from? I know what they are for the most part but am curious who came up with the term.
Also Where do most of you get your's from? Plane kits, spare kits, make them, etc... I am mainly doing trek related kits for now and I am intrestred in doing a borg ship in the near future. And would like to know the pest source for these little gems.
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All basically mean assorted little bits and pieces.
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage
to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill today because they got on my nerves.
And help me to remember when I'm having a bad day and it seems that people are trying to wind me up, it takes 42 muscles to frown, 28 to smile
and only 4 to extend my arm and smack someone in the mouth!
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage
to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill today because they got on my nerves.
And help me to remember when I'm having a bad day and it seems that people are trying to wind me up, it takes 42 muscles to frown, 28 to smile
and only 4 to extend my arm and smack someone in the mouth!
No one outside of the modelling hobby would believe the level of attention to detail required - even to the language involved
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage
to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill today because they got on my nerves.
And help me to remember when I'm having a bad day and it seems that people are trying to wind me up, it takes 42 muscles to frown, 28 to smile
and only 4 to extend my arm and smack someone in the mouth!
When I lived down in the Maritimes, we in the MSFM called greeblies "kibblie bits". I still use this term, its only been in the forum here that I've used greeblie. Our term for it came from a the name of a dry dog food (Kibbles'n'Bits) available in Canada.
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Curtw_944 wrote: And would like to know the pest source for these little gems.
Curt
Perhaps a lot of excess stuff left behind by mice.
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All of my greebles come from parts left over from other kits I have... people giving me their broken models... parts from brand new kits (generally tank parts and battleship or other modern era warship kits).
Then of course there is just seeing a cool looking item that isn't even a 'real' part. Just something that looks cool.
I used left over pieces of a vinyl screen and bendable straws for some of these details. http://www.spacemodelmania.com/models/g ... aCoils.jpg
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I think I remember first hearing the word in an article about the ILM model shop in the late 70's, (back when ILM was still new and cool). Can't remember for sure though.
As children, my sister and I used to "make" greeblies when ever we made tempura, or onion rings. Greeblies were produced by "accidently" dripping batter into the hot oil.
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Mr. Badwrench wrote:I think I remember first hearing the word in an article about the ILM model shop in the late 70's, (back when ILM was still new and cool). Can't remember for sure though.
In high school, I wrote an article about John Dykstra. I seem to remember during my research, that somebody at ILM actually coined the phrase (as it applies to building SFX models) when they were building the ships for filming Star Wars. The name stuck when one of the model makers mentioned it during an interview for a making of Star Wars documentary.
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I spelled it like I thought it would be, I only ever heard it from the guys at the club. its pronounced as greeblies, i like the idea of gribblies since its like gibblets from to many hours of quake.
I didn't think it was an attack . . .I wanted to mention how I got my spin on the term . . .the parts of the model that are it's giblets. When you get the kit the specialty parts are in a baggy tucked in the middle of the hull.
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I don't think greeblies was an ILM thing "nurnies" was what ILM called (extra added details). the Word though was coined by Tom Scherman and later used by the likes of Greg jien , Phil Tippet, Dennis Murrin(sp?), John Dykstra, Pat Mclung..everybody loved Tom
I believe Greeblies came from Pinewood Studios in UK
I'll ask my friend that used to work there..see if he knows anything...have fun with this!
best ,
Will
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dripping batter into the hot oil.
