Given that the only place to get them is Dire Foes (WHYYYYY?) what do people use to represent them on the table? Particularly when you have a need for alot of them. More than 10 of them.
There is a player semi-local to me who needed a ton of tinbots. He ended up making casts of them so he could make as many as he needed out of resin. I think this is probably the most cost-effective route if you want madtraps that look like Madtraps -- buy the dire foes box and cast your madtraps.
My girldfriend made me a small number of clay pigs for Fat Yuan Yuan mission. I put then on bases that I'd sprayed a large red star on. They are now MadTraps.
I am currently painting some little red Oni Models I got from some Japanese Yokai Kickstarter quite a while ago to serve as additional Mad Traps.
Maybe if you horrible peasants would stop rebelling and get back to madtrap production we wouldn't have this problem!
I don't like the Panda/Koala/etc design for mad-traps, but I tried to figure out what kind of bot would suit the idea of an immobilizing trap, while being close to chinese culture. The result of brainstorming is the idea of a small-Dragon mad-trap. Of course it needs to be in line with the perfection of CB models and that's when the detailed braid/tress (translation by Wordreference) of Imperial Agents came into mind. I'll use that one with some bits like back-antennas, to create pincers mouth. On Infinity wiki I also read about the fact that mad-traps are related to the "boa" and this suits simply perfect with my project. TO THE HOBBY-CAVE!
I actually like the MadTrap design CB has gone with, but I haven't picked any up as of yet... in the meantime, for MadTraps as well as various crazycoalas/tinbots/geists, I turn to my terrible collection of practice sculpt watillas:
