Hey guys, how's it going? I'm back with another MOC build and this one is
for my medieval village display.
I posted this over on the Lepin subreddit and I got some great suggestions
about what my MOC guillotine should include. Redditor u/Plane-Phrase4015
said "Make sure you put a body on it with a head in the basket!" and "Put it
up on a platform with a crowd, too". Well ok, I'm always up for the
challenge! I was planning on making some little feature sets to put with
my medieval village.
Oh BTW, These are all of my medieval themed sets and figures in my collection
right now ...
Some
Random Assortment of Medieval Soldiers Minifigures
Some
Random Assortment of Medieval Villagers
The
JMBricklayer Medieval Observation Guard Tower
The
LesDiy Medieval Windmill
The JMBricklayer 3-in-1 Ancient Weapon
I also have the
Funwhole Medieval Pier Inn but I think it's more piratey then medieval.
Hopefully, my pictures here will inspire you to make your own guillotine for
your own medieval building block display.
So, as was suggested, the guillotine should be constructed on a raised
platform. In order to have adequate movement around the guillotine, I made
my platform 12 studs x 12 studs with an extra 4 studs for the steps leading up
to the execution platform, making the entire footprint 12x16 studs. I
think 3 bricks high is a good as height as any.
Here's the flip side of my platform.
The main components are the platform with raised headrest, the guillotine frame,
and of course the all important bucket.
A look at the side profile.
At the front of the platform I decided to recess the bucket, so as to make the
imminent demise a bit more ergonomic and comfortable. Oops, someone
forgot to remove an old head leftover from last week's execution. The
sugar donuts are meant to represent some bloody neck sections, sorry, that's
all i could come up with. For evening executions, we have a couple
of torches to provide mood lighting. And for any beheadings, vermin are
essential.
To ensure that the heathen does not attempt to escape, he is forced to kneel
down and then shackled to the guillotine. The maintenance ladder
is from the Winter Garden Toy shop set, btw.
The blade is a triangular shaped wing piece from an old Megablocks fighter
jet set which I can finally put it into use now. There is a cable
that is attached to the top of the blade and feeds through the top and
over a pulley wheel.
Here's a better view of the blade. For my display, the blade
is fixed to the frame by two pegs that go into the headlight bricks on
either side. I suppose it is possible to have the blade free hanging
by removing those pegs, making it more or less "functional". I'm not
sure if the blade might end up hanging lopsided though.
Also pictured is the pulley wheel, which is mounted to a technic plate
which is in turn mounted to the frame structure of the guillotine.
Here's the reverse view of the blade component.
The cable runs down to the executioner's podium where it is attached to some
leftover castle blocks (also Megablocks brand). The extension to the
platform measures 4 studs x 9 studs.
Just another day on the job.
Donuts, anyone?
I'll let you use your own imagination on how the beheading might look
like.
Thanks for checking out my custom medieval guillotine! Bye for
now!
