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.
A long time ago (or so the story goes), I painted up the first Forge World Warhound Titan, and was very proud of it.Just building the model itself took considerable effort on my part, as I had never really dealt with resin before. Plus the sheer scale of the model was quite challenging as well, […]
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Did you get it? We just sent out our second newsletter recently. It summarized our best articles of the month, and let everyone know about the Free 6th Edition Rulebook Give Away (that’s ending soon). You can check it out here, and if you haven’t signed up yet for our monthly mailer, be sure to […]
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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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Checkout this pretty cool Scratch Built Tau Manta Super Heavy Flyer by Graven Games.From Graven Games’ Site;We’ve decided to kick off the projects section of Graven Games with a bang. Not many people are crazy enough to attempt scratchbuilding a model as huge as a Tau Manta for Warhammer 40k Apocalypse …but we definitely are! Follow our journey […]
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Checkout the list I’ve been playtesting so far for Sixth Edition.I’ll admit I don’t get to play as much as I used to since, opening up FTW Games and Spikey Bits, but I do try to play at least once a week. Granted I talk about armies and what to play and how to play […]
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Bursting on all sides, my display case of miniatures for sale is on the brink of destruction. I just updated the pictures below with some new shots of the case from today! Thanks to everyone who has emailed me and made a deal so far, I’ve sold a ton of stuff so far, but there […]
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Check out this amazing Master of the Forge! I got an email the other day with a link to this article, and was really taken aback. Being a follower of the Cult of the Machine myself, see my Custom Iron Angels Chapter here, I really really love this model. This come to us from Graven […]
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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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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 Jkin’s incredibly detailed Black Templar Land […]
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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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Here’s another look at my custom Ork Nob Biker squad, and their pimped bases. This is summary of my original three blog posts back in April ’09. Isn’t it funny how what was once old is now new again? With the release of sixth Nob Bikers are all the rage again! The best thing I […]
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Well it seems like all anyone wants to write about lately is how wound allocation works in sixth Edition.So lets take a look at another article on the matter! Today I have for you another guest spot by TPM Paul Murphy with his thoughts on allocation and some brief examples. From TPM,My club mates have […]
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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 my old Ghazghkull Thraka model form […]
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Today we have another guest post by TPM, that addresses what to do now with the rumored legalization of Imperial Armor units in 6th! From TPM A buddy of mine asked me what list I would build for a tournament that allowed these units and below is what I came up with. I am pretty disappointed […]
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Today I took another crack at converting one of the hottest bits on the market today; the Combi-Melta gun. Here at Spikey Bits, we still cant seem to keep this particular bit in stock, and routinely cut down whole commander kits at a time, just for this one component. It’s pretty bad when I don’t […]
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Well it appears I may have impressed some folks with a few Work in Progress shots I put up last night on Facebook.I like posting quick pictures to Facebook using my phone, cause it’s easy to make a small catalog of what I’m working on without stopping every five seconds and setting up photo equipment etc. So […]
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I’ve been studying this picture for a few days now, and can’t seem to place any of the components.Either this is a whole new kit, or more amazing scratch builds like the “New Plastic Chaos Terminators” thread from last week. Let’s take a closer look. Here’s another potential gem in the hard to see picture from the […]
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Top Level player Paul Murphy (TPM) shares with us today his first Blood Angels list for 6th Edition.TPM sat at the top of the Rankings HQ’s chart for 40k Players in America for quite awhile. Can he do it again with 6th? From TPM,I am still not completely sure how I feel about the new rules. I feel GW […]
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