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Rob Baer - Spikey Bits Author

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Rob Baer

Job Title: Managing Editor

Founded Spikey Bits in 2009

Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X

About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.

Rob also co-founded and is a panelist on the weekly Long War Podcast, which has over 500 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k, and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls. 

Every year, he and his co-hosts help host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at the Las Vegas Open, both of which attract thousands of players from around the world.

Rob has also won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments and even winning 1st place at the 2011 Adepticon 40k Team Tournament. He was even featured for his painting in issue #304 of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf Magazine.

With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times. He also advises major hedge funds on stocks like Games Workshop and Asmodee.

He is always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone provide the value consumers want.

While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.

  Robots in disguise? Now that Spyders seem to be gaining in popularity again, checkout this Scorpion conversion I did a few years back to transform a boring old Wraith model to a scary grim dark killing machine!

Read More | February 24th, 2015

NECRONS – Canoptek Scorpion Conversion

February 24th, 2015

Forge World showed off some of their new Scyllax Guardian-automata last weekend at the Heresy Weekender, and it looks like they’ll be on the shelves there for sale soon.

Read More | February 23rd, 2015

NEW FORGE WORLD – Ad Mech Scyllax

February 23rd, 2015

This amazing Necron Walker was submitted to one of our Hobby Contests a few years back, and while it was in fact the winning entry  I wanted to share it with everyone who may have missed it because the Necrons are rising once again!

Read More | June 21st, 2025

Necron Strider – Conversion Corner

June 21st, 2025