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.
Well in keeping with the New Year’s tradition, here is the best of Space Marines that I featured in 2013! If you want to find out more about any of these models, you can always click on the Space Marines category as well. Don’t forget to click the links to view the whole army feature, and comment with your vote […]
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Welcome to Picture of the Day, where we display a sweet pic of something amazing that we’ve seen around the tubes, or took at an event! If you click on the Picture of the Day label you’ll be able to scroll through some great Warhammer related images, all at once. Pretty dope Chaos Marine by Thatgearsguy –MBG
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Welcome to Army of One, where I display a great looking painted model from stuff I’ve done or amazing figures I’ve seen around. If you click on the Army of One label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking figures, all at once. Today we take a look at a stompa with attitude by md-orks. –Enjoy MBG
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Welcome to Conversion Corner, where we display great looking converted and Work In Progress (WIP) models from stuff we’ve done or amazing figures we’ve seen around. If you click on the Conversion Corner label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking conversions and more, all at once. Pretty impressive conversion at face value. But take a look […]
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Welcome to Army of One, where I display a great looking painted model from stuff I’ve done or amazing figures I’ve seen around. If you click on the Army of One label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking figures, all at once. Today we take a look at a sweet Imperial informational poster by archibald –Enjoy […]
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Primarch, warrior, madman, heretic. All of these accurately describe Angron, the primarch of the World Eaters Legion of Space Marines.Angron is easily the most characterful of the primarchs, and IMHO the right choice as the first release of the Primarch series from Forge World. The model features a sweet removable display base, and eviscerated legionnaire […]
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Have you seen this super heavy yet?Introducing the World Ender Missile System by Blood and Skulls Industries (the guys that did that Dark Angels Angelus Redemption for charity over the break). It consists of TWO different missile launch systems, both of which are pretty useful in larger scale games of 40k. Plus it’s probably the biggest […]
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Welcome to Conversion Corner, where we display great looking converted and Work In Progress (WIP) models from stuff we’ve done or amazing figures we’ve seen around. If you click on the Conversion Corner label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking conversions and more, all at once. Very orky monowheel. by Dan Brown. -Enjoy MBG
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Checkout these cool looking vertical launch Exorcists for Sisters of Battle by Beast. They are the normal plastic rhino kits with Hunter Killer launchers mounted in the troop bay. Pretty quick and easy conversion, if you have the old missile canisters! -MBG
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Last week a ton of rumors broke about a supposed 7th Edition of Warhammer 40k being released. Let’s take a closer look.Apparently it was posted somewhere that Games Workshop would be releasing 7th Edition Warhammer 40k sometime this year, a full two years early of it’s normal four year release cycle. First off let me […]
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I just found this very detailed gallery of the Forge World Istvaan III Betrayal table over on Recalcitrant Daze’s site. I believe it was form the Horus Heresy weekender there over the summer, although I think it had been unveiled previously Regardless, this is a great look at a fantastic table. Also if you have read […]
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Welcome to 40k Flashback, where I dig deep for something cool that I have or have seen from back in the day. Which according to the comic Dane Cook was a Wednesday… This is a look at the early 90’s “red” period for Games Workshop where the studio seemed to uh painted everything in reds for some […]
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Welcome to Picture of the Day, where we display a sweet pic of something amazing that we’ve seen around the tubes, or took at an event! If you click on the Picture of the Day label you’ll be able to scroll through some great Warhammer related images, all at once. If this is Khone himself, I want to […]
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The First Captain of the Death Guard, and master of the Terminus Est released today from Forge World for shipment next Friday Jan 10th.While not the Primarch of his legion, Typhon (or Typhus) goes on to have quite a storied future of his own, similar to Ahriman of the Thousand Sons in some regards I […]
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Interested in showing off your work on Spikey Bits, and seeing your name in lights? We want those pics!If you click on the Army of One label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking figures, all at once. Today we take a look at Bob Weiss’s sweet Greater Brass Scorpion of Khorne! Can YOU name all […]
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Welcome to Picture of the Day, where we display a sweet pic of something amazing that we’ve seen around the tubes, or took at an event! If you click on the Picture of the Day label you’ll be able to scroll through some great Warhammer related images, all at once. By Anarchy Space Wolves? -Enjoy MBG
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Well in keeping with the New Year’s tradition, here is a the best of Eldar that I featured in 2013!If you want to find out more about any of these models, you can always click on the Eldar category as well. Don’t forget to click the links to view the whole army feature, and comment with your vote for the […]
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Interested in showing off your work on Spikey Bits, and seeing your name in lights? We want those pics!If you click on the Army of One label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking figures, all at once. Today we take a look at Thomas Morgan’s sweet Emperor of Mankind conversion! Can YOU name all the […]
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