This conversation just sparked an old memory, if you gents don't mind me sharing.
As a very young boy, I was in a LHS where they had a built model of a guillotine on display, complete with a headless figure.
I became curious about the basket. Somehow got up high enough to peek inside. Inside was what one would expect to be inside. It scared the living *bleep* out of me and for years , the mere suggestion of decapitation in a movie or show or even a book (this was long before graphic violence on TV/movies of course) totally freaked me out.
That LHS had a very distinctive smell, and to this day if a mix of odors somehow replicates that smell, I am that scared little boy all over again.
Oddly, I recall scratch building a guillotine for a school project later, and I still had the phobia. I used a chisel exacto blade (imagine showing up in school these days with that) and it was complete and operational with a plastic figure with a head held on by putty for demonstration.
Thanks for the memories, PJ.
BTW, I'd like to see your model too.
Goose, I recall the existence of the masculine/feminine guidelines now that you mention it.