"Waving Hands in Three Dimensions project" Topic

One of those on-again, off-again projects in my life was a little postal zine game called WAVING HANDS (WH). WH is a game of dueling wizards that features one of the most detailed spell casting systems I've ever seen. Spells are cast with hand gestures that are tracked with a shorthand notation in the pen and pencil game. I've always wanted to do a three dimensional version of this game with miniatures, but in larger scale (54mm). I was looking at the boxes of unpainted lead in the hopper and realized I had enough 54mm wizard types to give it a try recently. Larger wizard figures aren't impossible; just uncommon. It's the unglamorous cannon fodder orcs and goblins that don't exist in an affordable format for me-- read my trials and tribulations about finding creatures here: link

Now to the meat of the question.

During the course of my search for low grade "grunt" style fantasy critters, I found some plastic orcs from a Russian company. They are a little large and cartoony for what I had in mind but I think they will work. My problem is that I have no idea who makes them.. not being able to read cyrillic. If you follow the link above, you'll see a picture of the troops on the box. Anyone know who makes these creatures and what website they are on?

Thanks in advance

Walt

Here's a translation site. Tehnolog appears to be the company.

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here -
tehnolog.ru/product/bf.php
Very interesting, thank you

Oooh, even in English

Thanks so much! I was hoping there might be other figures in 54mm from this company. I have a box of Gladiators and Orcs on the way… slowly.. I just wanted to see what else they made.

V/R

Walt

And these link ?

Sorry but no, 28mm, just noticed

This guy, on EBay has the 54 mm orcs I think. Off and on… he does a lot of 54 mm out of russia

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Its a copout, but why can't you use just 28mm summonings (perhaps they appear shorter to emphasize that they are not real…)?

That's an approach I was going to go to if I couldn't find anything reasonable and affordable in roughly 54mm. I was fortunate to find the cheap plastic skellies (if you read the blog post I put up), so I'm using skellies instead of Orcs as my lowest level cannon fodder. Orcs are next, trolls next, and elementals last. The Trolls are iron giants from the D&D miniatures line and the elementals pretty much the same. So if anyone is in the flea market at cold wars with giant elemental or hill giant figures they want to unload, see me!

V/R

Walt

kokigami, yes, thats' the same guy I ordered orcs and gladiators from. I don't think the gladiators are going to match my existing 54mm figures but the orcs should work.

I remember an X11 (graphics/windows system that can connect and display over the net) version of this game. Each player had a It was probably between 15 and 20 years ago.

This, I think:
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andy

SO, I'm not seeing it (probably blind…) Are these 28 or 54mm?

The Orcs mentioned in the blog post are reputed to be 54mm. They look a little large to me, but nobody has published the official stats for an orc yet, so I can live with it if they come in a tad over my wizard figures.

One thing I find a bit offputting is the standard Wide Splayed Leg stance and not very aggressive poses on this bunch. All of the minis show figures holding weapons but not using them, other than bows.

Walt

54mm spellcasters for the game . . . Spellcaster:

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I have almost all of those. The size and proportion are nice.. I was just hoping for some pointy-hat action.

These are all rather good:

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And they have skellies as well:

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Not to mention it's a darn good price for 54mm. Is there a US distributor I wonder? I can't find on on the website.