[MOC] Les Miserables Battle Scene: Can you hear the people sing?

I put together this build for the Flickr group, Lego War, which held a contest during August and September.  It is a scene from the book/play/movie Les Miserable where the students build a barricade and fight against tyranny in the June Rebellion of 1832. 

Behind the Build

I'm a firm believer that Lego MOC's should be sturdy and playable, so I made each of the buildings in the image able to open up and included internal details such as furniture, wall hangings, internal walls, and doors and in some cases stairwells.  This was helpful to me as builder since to make the scene, I could empty the furniture from the surrounding buildings to make the barricade to join the rebellious minifigures in their fight against the "National Guard" minifigures. 

Making the plaza and street sections took a lot of round tile pushing and left me with sore thumbs.  The good part about this is that now that the tiles are on the plates, I can reuse the plates!

For those of you familiar with some of castle Lego sets, you might see that I styled my buildings after the buildings from Lego's Medieval Market (set 10193). In fact, you can see the top of the tan building from the Medieval Market included in the background of the image.

The National Guard soldiers are using muskets and hats purchased from Brickwarriors.com which I hand painted to highlight the metal parts.

Funny Fact

Though, this is the "June Rebellion" which in France would have been at the start of summer, I portrayed the plaza as if it were taking place during Autumn.  Having myself only seen the TV Movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077936/), I didn't know the time of year that this was occurring until I did more research on the topic.  Apparently in my version of events, June that year was particularly cold and caused the trees to turn colors. 

Additional pictures can be found on Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/135669374@N02/albums/72157673152181871