I've done a few tests and found that the shade of grey is dependent upon the lighting and the settings of your camera.
With the settings I currently have, Dark grey, blue, and green all look exactly the same shade, though with different settings, green can become significantly brighter or darker than the dark grey.
I'm planning to stick with that setting, though, as I would be able to use blue to build more grass and it would stay around about the same shade.
I do need to take some test pictures of that.

I have always liked the idea of doing a well executed greyscale film, and I know you will not disappoint with yours. Am looking forward to this with great anticipation.

That would be interesting, but I would be limited to only two shades of grey, and I'd rather have as many as possible.  I also want to build a set much larger than usual.  By using weird colours I can build more than before.

Anyway, I've arranged some bricks in a stack to show the range of greys which I am able to create and a comparison with their actual colours:

Several colours I have in plenty have been omitted from this since some are ridiculously close to the other colours already present.
Dark grey, blue, and green look exactly the same.  I could build an interlocking wall of random bricks in those colours and no one would be able to tell what was blue or green or not.
Yellow and lime green are both very close to beige, though a slight difference can be seen if they are put right next to each other.
Sand blue matches orange, and light blue matches grey.
Dark red, dark green, and dark blue are about the same as brown.

Here I've build a birch tree from beige and red, next to it are some wip red trees:

Here I have the red trees, a brown tree, and a rather pale wip orange tree:

I'm usually very disappointed with the number of trees I can build with my limited brown bricks, but in greyscale I can make lots of ugly trees to help it along.

Though I am still trying to think of some good NPU.

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Cool looks nice although Im not a big fan of the top of the birch tree it looks kind of out of place. But thats just my opinion.

I love the birch tree, it looks really good. As a side note, all this grey scale looks totally normal because I've been printing a lot of black and white darkroom prints recently. I think part of your sets should be an old rock brick building; all the shades of grey could give you some really amazing realism.

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Actually, if you look really closely, you can see that orange an red bricks are ever so slightly translucent.  Not enough that you can see anything through it at all or even close, but the way that light comes off them is slightly different from other bricks.

Do you not like the shade of grey, the shape, or the size?  I was planning to make it bigger, but I needed to find some more bricks first.

Any more tree designs would be a nice thing to have, I usually use trees similar to these, but I also have the curved trees I use in my fairy-tale videos.  And I of course plan to use those here as well.

I was also thinking the same thing.  I was hoping to have the ruined remains of some small castle or medieval building since it takes place in England.

The film will never exist in colour, not even in a way which I'll be able to watch it.

There's a slight difference between how the shades of grey translate when draining the colour out of a picture rather than just setting my camera to greyscale.
It you take my comparison picture and drain the colour, you will find that there's an obvious difference between the two and the colours are not in the right order anymore.
Now, I could shoot it in colour then drain it, but I'd rather have the camera set to greyscale as so that I can be ever cognizant of exactly how everything looks in greyscale whilst shooting.  I can also use this to quickly point the camera at what I'm currently building so I can see how it looks rather than taking a colour photo, putting it on my computer, then draining the colour, which would be bothersome and time consuming.  It would also add an extra step to editing in the red frames, as I would have to drain each frame before starting.

In the end, there is no reason at all for colour version of the frames to exist except for a behind the scenes video where you can see everything looking remarkably ugly.
Though, I still do plan to take some pictures of the completed set in colour so one can still see how remarkably ugly is really is.
Though, I'm unsure if I'm going to release these before or after the final film.  It might be nice to wait so someone watching the film for the first time wouldn't remember how the actual set looked, which might take away from the film.

The shape it seems a little flat to me and mabby just a tad small