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.
Check out this amazing kit-bashed Hovercraft! I cant imagine how much the actual cost of this model ended up being, but it’s still awesome! Looks like whomever made it attached a converted Baneblade on top of a 1:35? Scale Hovercraft, and then converted it out to mesh together. This creation was on display during Games Workshop’s Conversion […]
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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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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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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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Welcome back for a little mid-week conversion fun, and a big milestone. This article is the 100th conversion article on Spikey Bits. Woot!The blog itself will be coming up on its three year birthday this April as well! Believe it or not I was blogging two whole years about the hobby before I starting selling bits […]
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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 Beast’s Templar Land Speeder Conversion. -Enjoy […]
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Welcome another Unboxing Forge World article. Our first few articles, went over pretty well, so we’re pushing ahead with more!This time we have, form the New Warhammer Forge, the Chaos Dwarf BALE TAURUS! This thing is pretty fricking huge, and the detail on it is insane. The Kit Chaos Dwarf Bale Taurus available for 55 pounds from Forge […]
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A few years back I made some Ork Warbuggy conversions, and just recently found the pictures from the project- hidden deep in the bowels of my computer. The conversion is basically a slimmed down Ork Trukk made into a buggy. For a time they served in my Ork army, but these eventually formed the base for my […]
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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 Meeker’s double-decker Federated States of America […]
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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 sweet Forge World Black Templars Dreadnought from “Feast […]
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Checkout one of the most impressive Orky conversions that I can recall. This baby was on display during Games Workshop’s Conversion Contest at a recent Games Day, and it rocks! It’s chock full of details from the seasick lad, to the little dinghy trailing behind, this thing is awesome. No wonder this model took home […]
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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 Black Templars Land Speeder […]
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Welcome back for another exciting Knowledge Bomb article, where I go over some rules clarifications and “gotchas” for 5th Edition. I realize that there may only be less than a year left for this rules set, but there is still tons of time for gaming! Not to mention there are a few big tournaments left to attend […]
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Check out these sweet super sailed Dark Eldar Ravengers. John E. Converted them up and they look great, like some sorta Chaotic Eldar Starfighter from Tatoonie. Wow that was a mouthful. Anyways this is a pretty cool way to really make Dark Eldar skimmers stand out from the rest of um, the pack? Kudos to […]
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Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that we just dropped the price on a few great bits items recently. Some of them are pretty in demand as well so we even stocked up on them. Checkout the list below, and thanks for shopping Spikey Bits! Devastator Plasma Cannon Devastator Heavy Bolter Combi Melta Razorback […]
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Welcome to our third Forge World un-boxing article. Our first few articles, went over pretty well, so we’re pushing ahead with more!This time we have, form the New Warhammer Forge, the Chaos Dwarf Death Shrieker Rocket Launcher! It features lots of little dudes, and very pointy parts- perfect for all flavors of Chaos. The Kit Death Shrieker Rocket Launcher available for […]
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Welcome back for another great cheap and easy conversion. This time we’re going to have a crack at converting another super hot bit; the Combi-Melta gun. This bit, (along with even just the standard melta gun) flies off the shelves for us sales wise. But while it’s a great seller, it’s also one of the […]
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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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