Rob Baer - Spikey Bits Author

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 espically Dark Angels! And since everyone and their mom will have some Dark Angels soon form the Dark Vengeance Starter, this conversion can […]

Back again for a limited time; “The” Fat Sack o’ Bits.Whittled away for years in the dark closet of power was a collection of bits so vast, so powerful that they had to be hidden from the world- less they devour it with their mind numbing awesomeness. Once again they have awoken, and are hungry. […]

Red hot and ready to go, the newest Warhammer 40k Starter set, Dark Vengeance is live across the world.This week is the release of the Limited Edition Box set from Games Workshop, followed next week by the “normal” box set. Apparently the only thing different between the two sets is the Limited Edition Chaplain model, […]

Now that it’s finally shipping in the US, lock in your order for Dark Vengeance! We just posted the new Dark Vengeance Starter Box Set as well as the individual squads and more! Best part is, everything is 20% OFF!!! How do we do it…? So get your miniatures locked in NOW before we blow […]

Do you horde toy soldiers? If so there is help.I saw this article pop up the other day over on White Metal Games, and I gotta admit it really hit home to me. So I realized I had a “problem” when my movers told me I was 5000 lbs over the estimated weight for my […]

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 […]

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 […]

White Dwarf #392 hit over the weekend, and as expected it was all about the new Warhammer 40k Starter box, Dark Vengeance. And oh my do the new minis look gorgeous! These models blow away all the other starter set figures, combined! Heck, when was the last time you saw tentacles reloading a holstered bolt […]

Now’s the time to lock in your Dark Vengeance Minis, and Small 6th Rulebook order!We just posted advanced orders for the new Dark Vengeance Starter Box Set as well as the individual squads and more! Best part is, everything is 20% OFF!!! How do we do it…? So get your miniatures locked in NOW before […]

Listen up Treadheads, these new tanks are going to rock your socks! Coming soon from Spartan Games (the guys that brought us Dystopian Wars, Uncharted Seas, etc) is a full on 28mm game with tanks to scale!At first I thought I was looking at some weird new game from Forgeworld, but nope these are from […]

Want to make your gaming buddies jealous of your organizational skills?Recently my buddy Ender posted up on BoLS about some 40k Gaming Aids he had made for Sixth Edition wound allocations and unit stats. Unfortunately he’s silly and forgot to link to the file itself for us to use!Eventually they did link it on BoLS, but I think […]

Well the birds have certainly been chirping, and now we have the entire contents of the Dark Vengeance box set leaked for all to see.This is shaping up to be a MONSTER release, as everyone will want both the minis, and the small portable rulebook. Here at Spikey Bits, well start pre-ordering the box set […]

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 squadron of neat looking Imperial […]

Checkout the newest flyer from Forge World, the Avenger Strike Fighter!Today I’m unboxing the new Avenger Strike Fighter from Forgerworld, and I gotta tell you I really like the look of this thing. I think the reason that it is so appealing to me, is because it borrows so many design elements from other fictional aircraft. I […]

This is a great article about building a better devastator unit, which in 6th is kinda still undecided.Well unless everyone gets Flakk missiles all of a sudden, then the choice maybe pretty clear! This is, of course, a guest post from Kirby at 3++, and I think it’s really good at breaking down the numbers […]

Blood of Kittens posted up some more Chaos Space Marines rumors recently.He’s had the Chaos book since well before WarGameCon and shared a lot of it with some of us back then. Personally I am especially fond of the picture of the Dragon Flyer he has. I’m sure as the next release date approaches his […]

I woke up this morning to an absolute fusillade of text and email messages about an apparently leaked list of new 40k releases for 2012/13.Story goes someone was data mining info for the new Hobbit movie and stumbled upon Games Workshop’s miniature releases, which also happened to contain their 40k releases as well. The posts […]

This just in… new Sixth Edition news, well sort of…Recently we saw a big news dump about “NEW” rumors about the 6th Edition start Box from Beast of war, and well, it was all pretty much old news. Everything except the name of the starter box itself was leaked as far back as Adepticon (April […]