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.
I’ve come down with a bit of a head cold, so no content today, just pretty pictures 😀 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 […]
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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 one of my older conversions circa […]
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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 a new segment here on Spikey Bits, 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 a few big tournaments left to attend as […]
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Well another holiday break has borne more conversionary? fruit, lol. Check out my newest Necron conversion, the Canoptek Wraith. This little guy is quite an combination of bits, as I went a little over the top with it. But fear not- I’m positive there are great substitutes for all these bits out there on the cheap. Below […]
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Every wonder what one of the most expensive kits Forge World makes looks like in real life?Me and Jkin were taking the other day about how cool it would be to have a Tau Manta, and then we wonder just how much work it would actually be to assemble, lol. So to the internet we went. […]
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Coming second week of January, via warseer. Posted by the infamous “Harry” GW’s rumored leaker. Thread http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=319999&page=82 and page 83 At first glance, I’m impressed. Hopefully this release can continue to “resurrect” interest in Fantasy. Can’t wait till mid January.
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Here is a list I peeped the other day that looks pretty solid. It’s from Togashi Shinkaze, who just smashed the 40k ‘Ard Boyz scene a few months ago. I’ve been gearing my Grey Knights to a more Purifier-scoring build, so I’ll definitively be playing around with this list in the future. I just figured out how to duplicate […]
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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 Chaos Santa on display at […]
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Check out this sweet Necron Glow Effect Tutorial by Zail. He posted this up earlier, and though I would share- cause it’s really good. Keep up the good work dude, your stuff is spot on. From Zail’s Warhammer:Hi Lads, today I thought I would show you how to make a glow effect on your models. […]
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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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That’s right, this little guy has paint on him now! Jkin appropriated my airbrush the other day to lay down the paint so to speak on his scout speeder! It turned out pretty good! Camouflage is one of the toughest things to paint in my opinion, and he pulled it off without a hitch. If you missed 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 Mecha- Hive Tyrant from Feast […]
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Hey guys, just wanted to let everyone know about some items we just put back for sale on the website, and some other general updates. First off I just updated prices on the categories below. We started getting a ton of backstock on some of this stuff, so it time to mooooove it out! Our loss is […]
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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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So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to sort this whole mess out. I want to give this Baneblade away, but I feel like this whole thing got a little out of hand for a variety of reasons. Lets take a look shall we at what went wrong and how to maybe fix […]
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Har, Har, Har! Check out this amazing Scratch built Ork Stompa. I just recently found all my Games Day pictures (YEAH!) and this guy was one of the last things I snapped! First off, pardon the sneeze guard with scratchy glass Games Workshop uses to keep your models protected. The best conversions in my option […]
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So I spent the weekend posting about all the sweet Necron conversions I found out on different sites. Most notably were these Triach Stalker conversions that really, really resemble the artwork from the codex. Today however I’m featuring another one of my new Necron conversions, the Ankh Pattern Destroyer. I call it the Ankh mostly because of the curved […]
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