From RayR - Historical Drama - Hornblower 25pts

 

Its back to the Challenge Studio map for this post, I'm off to Historical Drama, which is my last room for a Green Security Pass.

Historical Drama: The whole of history at your fingertips and painting brush-points. Which historical drama will you choose to paint in miniature?

Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S Forester.

Forester's series about Hornblower tales began with the novel The Happy Return, published in 1937. Here Hornblower is a captain on a secret mission to Central America in 1808. Later stories fill out his earlier years, starting with his unpromising beginning as a seasick midshipman. As the Napoleonic Wars progress he steadily gains promotion as a result of his skill and daring, despite his initial poverty and lack of influential friends. After surviving many adventures in a wide variety of locales he rises to become Admiral of the Fleet.

I've never read any of Forester's books but loved the ITV series Hornblower from 1998-2003.

My Hornblower figure, will be used as the leader of a small British Navel force for my Haitian Revolution project. The figure is from Britannia Miniatures available from Andy at Grubby Tanks.

Horatio will earn me 5 points

Bonus 20 points

Total 25 points!

Great, a model that I don't have to squint to see. Hornblower looks very dashing and I'm sure he will make a fine addition to your project. Coincidentally, I just started listening to a podcast about the Haitian Revolution yesterday, it seems like a fascinating (if bloody) period.