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.
Checkout this eerie autonomous Necron Canoptek Spyder Conversion.I got looking around the blog-o-sphere the other day for some inspiration on converting up a Spyder model, (since Games Workshop hasn’t re-released one yet) for an upcoming Necrontyr project. Eventually I ended up over at White Metal Games’ blog, clicking though all of his designs until I […]
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Check out my video Unboxing of the new Empire Celestial Hurricanum!This kit comes with a ton of extra bits that would complement any sorcerous project you may have. I cracked open all the new Empire kits recently and did video unboxings on them for all to see! I also filmed a nifty review of the […]
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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 an old Arctic themed Destroyer […]
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Checkout this amazing Tower of Khorne conversion by Yepimadork.I’ve been getting all sorts of excited as of late with rumors of Chaos becoming more and more frequent. So I thought I’d share my Tower of Khorne that Yepimadork made, with you all today, as we grind closer to hopefully a new book for the worshipers […]
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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 […]
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Warkitteh- LolCats Meets 40kWelcome to the new segment here on Spikey Bits called Warkitteh (or War Kitty), which is basically pics of my cats being stupid. I happen to have several cats, and they all seem to dig my toy soldiers. By dig I mean do dumb things around them, and that is funny. Seriously whats […]
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Today I have more of Beast’s Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii Army to showcase for you.Ad Mech always seems to have a special place in everyone’s hearts. When you see conversions, they are either pretty much terrible, or off the wall amazing! I like these little guys, as they seem to be just the right mix of […]
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Leading off what I hope will be exciting Spring of new releases, are the new Games Workshop Citadel Paints.As you have probably heard by now this is a complete re-release of the old line, as many colors have been redone, and some colors brought back from the Eye of Terror even. The complete set encompasses […]
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Welcome to a new segment here on Spikey Bits called War Torn, where I try to capture a perhaps pivotal moment in a battle, or a frame that shows an ongoing conflict from the game we love. Eventually if you click on the War Torn label you’ll be able to scroll through some hopefully amazing battles in frozen […]
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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 an amazing Sanguinary Guard model painted […]
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MBG back again with the last, for now at least, of my Games Workshop 2012 Release Schedule musings.Last time I talked a lot about the all the rumored upcoming releases, but what about post 6th edition? What do we have to look forward to this fall? So today’s rant will be about late year releases. […]
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Welcome to Flashback Fridays, where I dig deep for something cool that I have from back in the day. Which according to the comic Dane Cook was a Wednesday. You always hear the question: “How did you get into the hobby?”, and for me it was getting bored with assembling fighter jet models. I could never afford […]
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Check out the newest bits we have to offer, Space Marines Command Squad, and Terminator Bits.I just recently posted up over Thirty new bits from these kits, that are available for immediate sale! Pardon the blog interruption, but this is the fastest most effective way to make announcements for the Spikey Bits online store. You can […]
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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 very nicely detailed Captain Lysander from Feast of […]
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One of the guys at the store just got this sweet Slaaneshi Exorcist back from White Metal Games, in anticipation of some Chaos fun hopefully in the near future.This thing is wicked cool, so I wanted to show it off some and maybe eventually make a datasheet for it. The Conversion(s) Well this monstrosity started […]
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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 […]
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Leading off what I hope will be exciting Spring of new releases, are the new Games Workshop Citadel Paints.As you have probably heard by now this is a complete re-release of the old line, as many colors have been redone, and some colors brought back from the Eye of Terror even. The complete set encompasses […]
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Another week has gone by, and now we have more work to show off by Jkin.Last week I featured his converted Sword Brethren Terminators and this week well, we have they finished product. Boy do they look good. Everything that seemed to be “off” on them before paint really came together with the addition of […]
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