Mad Bob's Miniatures

[carlos marighela]

I'm looking for some (hopefully objective) opinions on this line. Having just placed an order for some Czech interwar infantry, I thought I might give them support in the form of a LT vz.35 tank or the Pzkpfw-35 (t) as the Germans called it. The only two in-scale examples I can find are the Warlord and Mad Bob versions, both in 1/56th scale. The Warlord one looks a bit ropey, like much of their resin stuff. The photos of the Mad Bob one also look a bit rough and ready, the texture of the tank looks rather rough although I'm inclined towards it as it's marginally cheaper and hopefully doesn't come with the ordering issues Warlord seem to have become known for.

Anyone with some of the Mad Bob stuff care to opine on quality, resin texture and ease of construction? Doesn't have to be the item in question, just curious as to the general value for money equation and customer service.

[Poiter50]

Big fan of MBM. I have the Pz 35 (t) and it is a nice piece (KS purchase). I have some of his others through a KS and while there may be the odd bubble hole to be dealt with, it is easily fixed. Just wish he would add to his Brits and do some more softskins.

[draxx66]

May I be so bold as to ask where you are getting your Czech infantry from. 

[Arlequín]

I would imagine Bohemia. 

No really: https://www.horcata.eu/category/czechoslovak-infantry/

Sadly Emil never really expanded on this short set of Paul Hicks sculpted figures.

Unless Carlos knows of another range out there somewhere?

[carlos marighela]

Big fan of MBM. I have the Pz 35 (t) and it is a nice piece (KS purchase). I have some of his others through a KS and while there may be the odd bubble hole to be dealt with, it is easily fixed. Just wish he would add to his Brits and do some more softskins.

Cheers! That tilts me further toward Mad Bob.

Yes, the Czechoslvak infantry are from Bohemia Miniatures. I need another project like a hole in the head but they just appealed to me. There's enough of them to make a platoon's worth, which is all I'm after and I can convert some other ranges if I want medium machineguns and the like.

I'm already thinking about knocking up some Sudetendeutches Freikorps for some historical opposition as well as an auxiliary force for invading Germans c1938.

[draxx66]

Thanks for that.   

[Arlequín]

I'm already thinking about knocking up some Sudetendeutches Freikorps for some historical opposition as well as an auxiliary force for invading Germans c1938.

That's a bit eerie, much of my reading over the past weekend has been on a similar theme. Not that that was the first time I've looked at them, but still.

 

I was thinking Footsore BUF might be a conversion base for Czech Customs Police.

[Poiter50]

Didn't Campaign Games & Logistics have a Vz HMG sculpted recently for a Romanian force in 28mm? He wasn't happy with the figures but the weapons were looking good.

[Helen]

Mad Bob's range from its initial production to now has gone through various stages of resin quality from being grainy to a more smoother texture. As I've a number of vehicles and guns that cover this period I would say that Mad Bob's range in quality is good to very good.

[Lowtardog]

You buggers, ended up ordering a couple of vehicles due to this thread

[carlos marighela]

That's a bit eerie, much of my reading over the past weekend has been on a similar theme. Not that that was the first time I've looked at them, but still.

 

I was thinking Footsore BUF might be a conversion base for Czech Customs Police.

Apparently the Illinois er, Sudeten Nazis were armed with ex-Austrian Mannlicher rifles, in part as part of a (im)plausible deniability  effort on Hitler's part. Mannlicher 1895's look rather similar to Moisin Nagant's in 28mm, so I'm thinking of using some of the suited Eureka Russian partisans, with armbands and maybe the odd head swap as a core and filling them out with a miscellany of other types including some of the Copplestone KGB, who serve many masters for my purposes.

Thanks Helen, that's very good to know. MGM it is then.

[Arteis]

I'm really pleased with my Mad Bob Miniatures vehicles.  Even if they cost me a good business shirt - my blog explains how this happened! https://arteis.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/a-business-shirt-for-a-laffly-amd-50-armoured-car/

[Sinewgrab]

I have a Mad Bob Semovente 105/25 for my Italians, as well as the TACAM R-2 in case I wanted to play Romanians with my Cultist army, and I feel they were good quality resins.

[lou passejaire]

Mad Bob models with a little work :



and without :



he is one of my resin dealers 

[Rich H]

Best thing about Mad Bob is  he is such a nice guy. 

Unhinged, but nice.