"Greebling with Lego - Where to Greeble?" Topic
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Tango01 | 28 Jul 2015 3:41 p.m. PST |
"Greebling with LEGO is a subject with very few set conventions. Basically as long as the greebled area looks good in context, feel free to do the greeble-dance. But what does it take for a greebled area to "look good in context"? Basically, the greebles should look like they are functional, and sit in a logical place for that function. As an obvious and slightly far-fetched example, consider LEGO mosaics: are they usually greebled? Most often, no. Why not? Because it would look odd – the detailing would have no real purpose beside looking cool, and they would appear out of place. The same goes for putting greebles on all other MOCs – without purpose, they are just cool detailing that probably appear odd to the functional minded human eye. Below are some examples of what I consider good greebling techniques. Some are the traditional kind, others not – but they all have in common that they are LEGO brick-built detailing (click images for larger view)…" From Main page thebrickblogger.com Amicalement Armand |
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