Lego Greebling, How to using Railway Tracks

 

Hey brick fans!

Today's little project is about how to make greebling for your space or lego star wars dioramas. I tried a simple solution of using railway track pieces as scaffolding.  Let's see how it turns out!

For this tutorial, I have used 4 railway track pieces, but you can use however many pieces you have on hand.  

Get yourself some plates that are 1 stud wide and attach them to the sides of the track.  Use two 1x2 pieces for the top and bottom and use a 2x2 plate to secure the middle.  As you can see, I've just used random length pieces for the sides.

Use some smooth tiles to cover the sides.

Now, you want to fill in the middle by using stud wide plates.  I'm using 2x16 plates, but again use whatever you have in your brick stash.  On top of the those plates, you will need 2 pieces of coaster track.

It's ok if you don't have any coaster track, just use whatever you have available to you.  Here's another example of what you could put in the middle.

Now let's do some greebling ...

To keep it simple, I start by taking dark gray plates that are 4 studs wide but can be any length.  Then freely add little bits and pieces to the plates.  Feel free to copy my design or come up with your own based on whatever bricks you have.  As you can see above, it's easiest to start greebling on a 4x4 plate. Then as you get more parts, try making a bigger greeble panel from a 4x6 plate, and so on.  Using this modular technique means you won't get overwhelmed by trying to do too much.   After you've made random greeble panels, experiment by putting them together in different ways to see what looks best.

The fun thing is, if you get bored you can pop all the panels off and put them together in a new way.  Here's how mine looks.

These greebled panels can then be displayed as a backdrop for your futuristic setups.

The panels look great both horizontally or vertically. 

Try making more panels once you get the hang of it and try using different pieces to get different textures.  As a tip, I try to keep all the coloured parts on a panel the same, except where you want to deliberately make something stand out like the yellow ladder on the dark gray greeble panel.

Most importantly, have fun and see what you can come up with. Anyways, feel free to leave a comment or question!    Thanks for looking, Bye!