From SidneyR: Pack Baggage for the "Oubliette" (30 points)

 

The Oubliette is a place for lost and forgotten things.  Miniatures which have been in the painting queue for longer than anyone can remember.  And I felt that the idea for this Challenge XI Chamber was to resurrect such miniatures, emptying the Oubliette and getting some paint on the last year's (or the last decade's) "Big (but forgotten) Thing".

I've had this lovely pair of baggage animals for years and years.  Possibly a decade, and possibly even into the early 2000s.  That's a very long time to be undercoated but not painted.  So this Challenge XI, it was their turn.

And in the hour it took to paint them (while making a coffee and watching Netflix), I did wonder why it had taken me so long.  They're a lovely pair of 28mm miniatures from Wargames Foundry, which should fit in perfectly for all kinds of periods and battlefields.  

I tried to paint them with a limited palette - no one wants the baggage horse and baggage donkey to overshadow the cuirassiers, after all.  And the dusty ground could be anywhere from the foothills of Extremadura to a Muscovite summer.  Easy to fit in anywhere, in other words.

In short they were just fun to paint, and painting forgotten figures is what the Challenges are all about, right?

So, for the points.  Two 28mm miniatures at 5 points each (I think horses score the same as two-legged chaps!), plus 20 points for the "Oubliette". Totalling 30 points to the score.

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