TSATF - The Sword And The Flame Games at Hurricon-2025!

 

(Click the photo to see it clearly - I don’t know why it’s blurry on the blog page)

Here is the list of games thus far for the upcoming HMGS-South convention Hurricon-2025! There are currently 6 games listed, that’s 3 per day with one more being added for Thursday night. 

Thursday Night’s convention game opener on the club TSATF - The Sword And The Flame table. 

Send in the Marines!

Coast of Mogadishu, 1906, a merchant vessel has been captured by Somali and Arab pirates. Negotiations have broken down, the ship’s crew have become pawns in an evil game. The hostages lives are at risk. An informant has leaked intel that the Somali warlord has no intention of letting the crew go and that they will be killed at dawn.

The American consulate general to Mogadishu has no choices left, “send in the Marines!”

                (Rough game map for Thursday night)

TSATF Colonial Games at HurriCon - Orlando 26-29 September

Tap on the above to see it clearly. 

These are the colonial games, mostly TSATF - The Sword And The Flame for the upcoming HMGS-South HurriCon-24 convention, 26-29 September 2024. There will be a colonial game run each session on the same table from Friday morning through Saturday night. 

Hosted by SMG, the South Florida Miniatures Gamers, whose members hail from South Miami to Central Florida and with members all over the country. 

                      HMGS-South HurriCon-24 link

A 7th game has now been added, a TSATF Sudan game for the Thursday night session. This scenario comes from an official TSATF Scenario Pack.

http://www.sergeants3.com/first.html

Russian Officers- Central Asia 1860-1890

 

Central Asia 1860’s -1890, Russian Commanders survey the battlefield. 

The Russians have crossed the frontier and are headed towards the Chitral Territory to stop the Anglo-Indian force headed to lift the siege of Chitral Fort. 

                                   5 April, 1891.

This is part of our ongoing NWF Campaign, as can be followed on the Lead Adventure Forum, aka LAF: Never Trust Anyone on the Frontier .

These figs are not originally Russians, nor are they our time period, however I painted them up as Russians as requested by my friend Bob for our LAF campaign. They are from the Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Prussian command set. I think they work rather well for these 1860-1890 Russian commanders. I did not paint the horses though, I only painted the riders. Bob did a great job mounting, basing, and photographing these. 

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/prussian-napoleonic/products/pn056

I don’t know what range this figure came from but it’s awesome. I painted him up as a Central Asian commander for Bob’s khanate or Pathan tribesmen. 

Here’s a Cossack character fig to lead one of Bob’s Cossack troops. 

The officer with the map is my favorite. I was going to paint some semblance of a map, but every time I’ve tried that in the past it just came out looking cartoonish. I decided I’d use a cool typographical map that I found on line for this mini, reduce it, and glue to the map in the miniature’s hands  I think it came out rather well. Here are some WIP pics.

                                    Hussar Officer

                               Khanate Leader

                   Russian infantry brigade commander

I reduced the map doc, printed it, and cut a piece the correct width but made it longer to wrap around the casted map to be able to fold it underneath. With a glue and water mix I fixed the paper to the figure and used rubber tipped sculpting tools to work it into place and around the fingers and hands. I’m very pleased with the results, however in the future I would make the map a bit darker to show up better. If you zoom in you can see the map details.

References gathered from across the web:

陷阱与钟摆（The Pit and the Pendulum）Xian Jing yu Zhong Bai - Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge #11

My take on the next chamber, "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a Chinese version  of the tale. I thought about the theme and not having any medieval or fantasy figures in my collection this would suite the bill. My good friend Mad Guru from Maiwand Day blog fame asked his wife to translate for me. This is her translation, thank you Xinhua. 

          陷阱与钟摆（The Pit and the Pendulum）Xian Jing yu Zhong Bai 

A WIP shot with reference in the background

The merciless execution (Woo Ching Choo Jue) vignette comes from the Wargames Foundry China Range. It is originally made for the Tai Ping Rebellion, however I think it can be used all the way through the Boxer Rebellion. I intend to use it for the Tai Ping Rebellion, Tonkin in the 1880's, and the Boxer Rebellion 1900. Pictured here is one of my motivational reference pieces.

The standard is an image I researched and captured from the net, copied, flipped, sized, printed, cut, and glued to a .032 Piano Wire rod from any craft or hobby store. The finial is a bead from Hobby Lobby where I purchased the piano wire.

The figures are based on washers to sit in their magnetized boxes. I used wood glue, ballast, sand, and old coffee grinds for the basing materials and painted with craft store paints. Burnt Umber, then Honeycomb, then highlighted with Bamboo.

                                            Here's some close ups.

Painting challenge points scoring for this entry: (4) 25/28mm figures x 5 Pts each + 20 points for the chamber = 40 Pts + standard pts - ?