The guillotine wip FINISHED!

[majorsmith]

Foundry guillotine nearly done crew on the way

[Keith]

That looks really good. Refreshing to not see this looking overly brown.

[Captain Blood]

That looks really good. Refreshing to not see this looking overly brown.

So true. Timber structures are grey, unless they are brand new, in which case they are yellowly-beige. People will insist of painting wood (and tree trunks) brown. They rarely are... 

It looks very good indeed.

[majorsmith]

Foundry’s guillotine finally finished! I’ve painted the crew as grim and dirty looking as possible

[OSHIROmodels]

Excellent 

[Orctrader]

That's very good.   

[majorsmith]

Cheers guys!  The older foundry figures are nice but smaller than a lot of stuff I’ve painted before more 25 than 28, bit of a challenge!

[Marine0846]

Well painted.
Like how you have painted the guillotine.

[Sheepman]

Very nice indeed.
Dave.

[Malamute]

Splendid paint job. Very effective woodwork and I like the splash of bright colour on the victims trousers. Very nice indeed.

[bluewillow]

Splendid brushwork sir, it is a great little piece, the terror it caused was real, particularly in the west where the most resistance to the revolution was to be found.

Madame guillotine was placed directly out the front of our house in the place de Cheverus square, over 400 persons were executed there over a 5 year period, the majority were members of the cloth, Nuns, monks and priests. Our cave/cellar was a female prison, its door was directly opposite the guillotine, the female were held in five cells that still exist today, where they awaited their fate to be freed or executed by the council.

The nobleman (Baron de Hercé) who owned our Maison Particulière originally fled to Jersey, returning in 1793 to command  a Royal Catholic Armee cavalry company raised in Mayenne for the Vendee Rebellion after the capture of Laval, then after the defeat of the Armee at Le Mans departed for England. He returned again with the émigré invasion at Quiberon, he managed along with one other brother to escape with the Chouan cavalry north out of the trap, two of his other brothers were not so lucky were executed by Fusilee in Auray, along with a large majority of the prisoners.

Cheers
Matt
French Wargame Holidays
L'Hotel de Hercé
Mayenne, pays de Loire
France
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[majorsmith]

Thanks everyone!

[flags_of_war]

Fantastic work. I love this so much. I've always fancied a skirmish scenario like the one in Hornblower where they help the Bourbons fight the Revolutionaries and they end up lobbing all the heads off of the locals. Much to the disgust of Hornblower.