Mike Warshaw’s Guillotine

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Here’s the first model I’ve built in ages: The Polar Lights release of the Aurora Guillotine, which I’ve been planning to build since the ’90s. The sign is a resin piece I picked up at Chiller more than a decade ago. I used the “lost oil” techniques for the wood, priming the pieces with tan enamel, then painting a mix of black, burnt sienna, and raw umber oil paints over that. While the paint was still wet, I used a flat brush to remove most of it, drawing the brush along the parts to create wood grain. Once that dried, I lightly drybrushed with tan. I sunk a washer in the neck, then placed a magnet in the head. I then put a little of the neck bone post back on the head to use for positioning, to easily repeat the execution of my little French aristocrat.

Mike Warshaw