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 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 have for you Yepimadork’s second intense Ironclad Dreadnought conversion. I featured […]
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The other day there was an amazing post over on From the Warp (FTW) about fixing bolt gun Barrels. When I read this my mind was blown, I never even thought you could fix wrecked barrels, and just gave up on several of my models because of this. Kudos to Ron at FTW for 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 the new Beastmen Cygor model (this is […]
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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 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 sweet painted Eldar Revenant Titan (with […]
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Here’s a little tutorial on how to swap out backpacks, so you can switch up Marines between Jump and Regular infantry. Why would you ever even want to do a thing like that? Well there comes a time, especially now, with a new edition of the rules looming in the distance, that sometimes it’s better to […]
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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. This time we have an actual award I won from a charity […]
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Welcome to our second Forge World un-boxing article. Our first one, the Tau Manta, went over pretty well, so we’re going to do a few more and see how you all like them.This time we have the Necron Tomb Stalker, featuring many, many of the same part. It would definitely be nice to have a bunch […]
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There is an old saying when it comes to doing something; that you either are good, get good, or give up. When it comes to playing games of 40k I think the same thing can probably be said. To me it seems like there are tiers of players in everything out there under the sun, […]
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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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I came across this chapter spread of the Dark Angels recently while looking for some other pics.
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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 Dark Eldar Tantalus, painted […]
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Welcome back to another week on the SB! Spikey Bits that is 😀 First up is this article on a conversion I came up with to make Terminator Psycannons on the cheap. This bit’s price has been steadily creeping up over the last few weeks, I suspect due to the demand of players gearing up […]
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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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FTW Games, the home of Spikey Bits, will be hosting one of the 2012 ADEPTICON Championship Primers on February 18th at 10 AM. What does this mean for you? Well we’ll be using practice mission for the big event at Adepticon later in the year. So if you are going, this will be perfect practice for you. If not […]
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Well in keeping with the New Year’s tradition, here is a collection of the best Tyranids Armies that I featured in 2011 (and even a couple I haven’t). If you want to find out more about any of these armies, you can always click on the Tyranids category as well. Welcome to Armies on Parade, where I display (in […]
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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 Thousand Son Model I painted up awhile back. […]
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There seems to be a general trend lately of moving to Land Speeders to provide mobile firepower for Space Marine Armies. However with 6th Edition looming in the far distance like a fat shadowy enigma, it may be better to magnetize everything these days to take full advantage of any new rules changes. I made a few […]
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