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.
Welcome to Armies on Parade, where I display (in hopefully good detail) some great looking armies from major tournaments all across the United States. If you click on the Armies on Parade label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking armies, all at once. It’s like you were at a major event yourself, all from the comfort […]
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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 conversion submitted by Graeme Hawke over on our Facebook […]
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Welcome to Picture of the Day, where I display a sweet pic of something amazing that I’ve seen around the tubes, or took myself 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. Another classic form the tubes! -Enjoy MBG
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Welcome to Picture of the Day, where I display a sweet pic of something amazing that I’ve seen around the tubes, or took myself 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. How would you caption this? Here, I’ll go […]
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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 pretty sweet Solid Snake conversion […]
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Welcome to Picture of the Day, where I display a sweet pic of something amazing that I’ve seen around the tubes, or took myself 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. How would you caption this? Here, I’ll go […]
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I just got word that something may have been hidden inside the most recent release of Horus Heresy models over at Forge World. Checkout this picture of a shoulder pad added in for flavor on the newly released Legion MKIII Squad kit, oh my isn’t starting to look a bit…Chaotic? I maybe wrong, BUT I […]
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Checkout my spankin’ new video unboxings of the newest bad guys on the Fantasy block, the Warriors of Chaos; Forsaken, Chariot, Slaughterbrute, and Plastic Dragon Ogres kits!Games Workshop seems to up the bar with every new multi-part plastic kit they release, and the new Warriors of Chaos models are no different IMHO. Sure there are […]
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As we move past the Warriors of Chaos release, and slide by the impending minefield of “if ” and “when” a flyer supplement will be sprung on all of us, we now have Tau rumors.As always to be taken with a grain of salt guys, these things change in a New York minute! From Faeit The Latest in Tau […]
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I was able to skim over the new Warriors of Chaos Army Book this weekend, and I have to say one thing, I didn’t even care about the rules after a certain point, the art was just amazing.First off, the book itself is 96 pages long, and written by Robin Cruddace. It is also the […]
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This is CJ, the semi-local Tau-Khador-IG nut. Today I want to show you how to create a Krootichan. The idea came to me as in getting a lot of my IG units I have found that I had Catachans who didn’t match my Cadian Guard and my Kroot came 16 to a box when the […]
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Welcome to Picture of the Day, where I display a sweet pic of something amazing that I’ve seen around the tubes, or took myself 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. Guess what my late Spring project […]
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Check out this super easy to make “Gothic” styled loyalist Space Marine. Originally this was my test mini for a new Black Templars army, but he could easily sub for any chapter especially Dark Angels! This is just a quick “Flashback Friday” re-post of a previous article from early 2012, but it goes great with the new Dark […]
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Welcome to Armies on Parade, where I display (in hopefully good detail) some great looking armies from major tournaments all across the United States. If you click on the Armies on Parade label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking armies, all at once. It’s like you were at a major event yourself, all from the comfort […]
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Recently one of the Spikey Bits writers started a huge, er small, project. Beef, recently purchased a treasure trove of sealed in package squat miniatures, and has begun constructing the mother of all Squat armies. He picked up the collection from Tyton Games in Illinois, and my what a collection it is. I’m still getting […]
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So here’s my latest “Faeit” commentary on the newest rumor of the week. It looks like GW is looking to switch out from Finecast to something better- like maybe those awesome plastic character packs they’ve been coming out with as of late for Fantasy and 40k (Chaos Aspiring Champion).Being a big company and all, with […]
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Flyers are zooming onto the scene next month? Well once again we have rumors about new flyer rules and models. Now it seems that this may be a stand alone book like Crusade of Fire, Battle for Black Fire Pass etc. This seems to coincide with recent “no more rules in White Dwarf” rumors making the […]
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They are here, and the word is this new codex rocks! All of the Dark Angels kits are available now, just in time to aid in the fight against the emerging Chaos Space Marine meta. If your looking to get some of the new minis at a great price, head on over to the Spikey […]
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