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.
This is a bit of guest post by Duke, of Dukes Inferno about the Feast of Blade Tournament coming up in about a month. I plan on attending, and honestly it sounds like a pretty good time! I want to see Feast growing to include stores from coast to coast. Last year we had 13 […]
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There is a neat little community out there that came up with a true skirmish version of 40k. It’s called “Death Squads” and it’s pretty cool.You can find out more over on their site. You have to register to get to the downloads section, but once you do all the resources are then available. There […]
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Today starts a new recurring segment called Warkitteh, 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 my friends is funny. Seriously whats better to laugh at, than cats doing stupid […]
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Here is a guest “Guide” by Scottywon82. According to him it’s not really complicated enough to warrant the name, but I still like it. You can find Scottywon82 lurking about over on DakkaDakka most of the time, or harassing us at FTW Games 🙂For the army list, I plan on running – at 1000 points – […]
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For those of you not familiar with it there is an old board game out there, that was just re done in fact, that emulates a first person shooter. It pretty much combines the play of 40k with the ridiculousness of Duke Nukem, and makes for a lot of fun. The game is called FRAG! and it’s a AWESOME. […]
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It’s the age old question- Magnets how do they work? Some say magic, but I am almost 100% sure Tom Cruise has something to do with it. Regardless, they just work and its awesome! Today we have a Two-Fer for you, how to magnetize your Stormraven, and how to magnetize stuff in general. So back […]
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A few years ago I wanted to convert up an Ironclad model before it was released. I had a few ideas but after seeing some of the stuff my buddy Plunkett was doing with his stuff, I decided to let him have a go at it. Then I could just detail it out the rest […]
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Welcome to a another guest post by Togashi Shinkaze. You can catch him lurking about over at Laughter of the Thirsting Gods talking about “metas” and “fun 40k”. Worth a read!This one’s about his ‘Ard Boyz Semis victory over the weekend, and since I choked round one, well I gotta get you coverage somehow! So last Saturday […]
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Check out these gorgeous WIP shots of Jkin’s Pre-Heresy Thousand Sons. It’s pretty amazing what can be done now with all the plastic kits out there! I think his conversions really bring home the look and Egyptian feel to the figures that the books convey. He really went the extra mile incorporating bits from the […]
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I got a ton of response lately about the Looted Guard. Everyone seems to want to know how I did the chipped paint. Guess I’ve procrastinated long enough right? Time to get an article together on it. So without any further fuss, here’s your how to article on the Chipped Paint Effect! To start out I just painted […]
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Here is a guest Painting “Guide” by Scottywon82. According to him it’s not really complicated enough to warrant the name, but I still like it. You can find Scottywon82 lurking about over on DakkaDakka most of the time, or harassing us at FTW Games 🙂 I really went for a simple look with the Prussians, […]
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Welcome to a another guest post by Togashi Shinkaze. You can catch him lurking about over at Laughter of the Thirsting Gods talking about “metas” and “fun 40k”. Worth a read!I built the list below specifically to play at Nova. I wouldn’t really play it at any other tournament that I know of. I thought it […]
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Welcome to a Friday guest post by Togashi Shinkaze. You can catch him lurking about over at Laughter of the Thirsting Gods talking about “metas” and “fun 40k”. Worth a read! Well it was alot of fun hanging out and talking smack on thursday night. At this point I have seen MBG wax Jawaballs in a […]
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The first Mega Deff Kopta was built for Warboss Ribkracker by Big Mek Gigawright. Besides showing an affinity for both warbikes and flyers, Gigawright spent hours and hours tinkering for new ways to get da boyz into the battle the fastest.After battling Air Assault Imperial Guard (da ones who jump out da jet fightas) in the Tendias Forgeworld, Gigawright had […]
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Check out this work in progress Chaos Thousand Sons Rhino by Jkin. If you missed his sweet Daemon Prince conversion recently do yourself a favor and check it out! Back to his new work, this puppy has got it all! This M41 Chaos Rhino comes standard with Spikey Bits, chains of doom, and a slight […]
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Wow what a week for all of us on the East Coast! First was an Earthquake of all things, about 30 miles from Spikey Bits Central, then of course a hurricane skirted up the coast, dumping a ton of rain and knocking out power all over the place. Somewhere in middle of all that Nova […]
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Welcome back! Today I have a little lead into the Nova Open, happening this weekend, and a feature on one of the lists I am considering running in the Invitational. Today I’ll be playing in the Nova Open Invitational, and I’m thinking about playing Master Shakes’ Orkquisition Grey Knights. I’ve been featuring a few of his conversions […]
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So here is the finished product from last week, a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch Diorama. My buddy Jkin spent the good part of a few weeks converting up both the base, and the model itself.They are pretty much all scratch built with a ton a green stuff. I really dig the drippy blood effect, and […]
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