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Here is a list of model manufacturers and other purveyors of tabletop wargaming goodness, many of them my personal favorites in a given category. If you’re looking for your next favorite mech, padding your vehicle bays or just cruising for stuff to kit out your table, you are bound to find something to your taste below.

The first Paint Roulette Invitational was a huge success. So much so that Round 2 was all but inevitable. This time around we had more painters, more options and some incredible raffle prize support for all participants courtesy of Fortress Miniatures and Games. Random paint plans, no judges’ panel, no scoreboards, no bull.

BattleTech’s single biggest strength is also a pretty big hurdle for new players. When any dense, deep-dish, mega-crunchy sci-fi property like this has run for so long, basically unchanged, it accumulates quite a baggage train. That can make it intimidating and hard to navigate for newcomers.

Recently, I was in a major painting slump. I needed to stretch my legs and shake off some rust after a long downtime. But nothing jumped out at me. Nothing spoke to me. I had in the not-too-distant past finished a whopper of a commission and some of my own big projects. Call it the…