Rob Baer - Spikey Bits Author

Besides declare Waaaagh on the other gaming tables, of course? Bad Orky gorilla jokes aside, recently I decided to set up all my Ork models to take some pictures for the blog and prep for an upcoming Apocalypse game.  As it turns out I have a bunch of models, an embarrassing large amount actually, so many in fact that I […]

I remember the dark skies, the smell of brimstone and death hanging high almost as if to linger in the air.  The year was 2003, the Chaos Space Marines were on the warpath, and it was good to be bad. Nowadays while the skies have cooled with the times (and their abomination of a “5th […]

Well if you haven’t heard by now, team Spikey Bits / Wrecking Crew won the 2011 Adepticon Team Championship.  Our team featured the talents of Kenny Boucher (Wrecking Crew, Next Level Painting), TPM Paul Murphy (Wrecking Crew), Joshua Ginn, and myself MBG Rob Baer (Spikey Bits, Wrecking Crew). Part of the Adepticon Weekend the Team Championship is […]

I have to admit, the one thing hobby related that I have always shied away from was doing snow on bases. No clue why…. I can pin, sculpt, build stuff from scratch etc, but I always run screaming when it comes to doing snow. Why? I have no clue. I suppose it has to do with messing up and ruining a […]

Some of you may remember the cool Storm Wardens Charity Project from last year. This year John and Mike (from Santa Cruz Warhammer,) wanted to do the same thing because lets face it, the world needs even more help this year. This year we have four build teams working on four 3,000 point armies, all to […]

I’m back with more on my new Space Marine army that I’m taking to Adepticon! I have to tell you I’m really looking forward to not playing Mech Guard the whole time this year. Anyways back to the army. I’m running a 6 Dreadnought Iron Handish Blood Angels backed up by some mans on foot.  […]

TIME FOR ADEPTICON 2011!!!! That’s right its spring again and in the 40k universe that only means one thing (besides new releases), it’s tournament time! Besides being the most awesomest tournament in the country to date, Adepticon is a chance to hang out make new friends, and catch up with your old ones. So many […]

I have been pretty busy lately gearing up for Adepticon ’11. Right now I am not 100% sure on all the events I will play in, but I know for sure I’ll be hitting up the Gladiator, because its the event I really like out of all of them.As fate would have it, we are […]

This is the first of many variants for the Stormraven Gunship I could come up with.  It is loosely based of off the Terminus Ultra Land Raider, except it’s got wings!  The premise behind the vehicle is basic search and destroy operations, where terrain/ conditions are not conductive to deployment of troops or heavy tanks.  […]

I have to admit, the Stormraven kit really kicked my butt. Maybe I was just preoccupied with things around the shop, or just tired from the night before- either way I still managed to screw it up a bit.  Regardless this kit is pretty cutting edge and it’s a blast to assemble. First off, when […]

That’s right true believers, the man who brought you Battlewagon Bits, is back im the bits business again, over the Spikey Bits Store. Be sure to check it out, there is a ton of stuff for sale right now, with many many more items planned for the coming weeks! We also carry regular Games Workshop, […]

Well we’re back again with my review of the new Stormraven, which I found to be very innovative and daringly designed. Publishing note- this is the second post of this article due to some mis-communication I had to take it down the first time. Like it or love it the new kit is here. I […]

This post kicks off a new series of articles on Spikey Bits called Conversion Potential. The aim of these random musings is to show off something I saw that is awesome and how it can be used in the hobby. This week I feature a model from the Hell Dorado miniature game that is just […]

If you are in the market for a new Warhammer 40k Army check out Spikey Bits e-Bay! I have all the bits I was going to use to make my Chaos Renegade guard army up on e-Bay right now. I also have a beautifuly painted Blood Angels Army (see opposite) that I will be listing […]

This is another guest post by FTW Games regular Meeker. Like a lot of people around the shop, he got into Dystopian Wars recently. Read on to find out how he painted his Federated States of America Battlegroup, and feel free to catch up with him over at the Stony Point Refugee (SPR) Forums, Painting […]

Recently a buddy of mine here at the shop named Beef (hold the cheddar) let me in on a little conversion secret- Thunder Wolves for $1.50 each. Of course this was of interest to me, so I wanted to see these models for myself.  When he brought them by I blown away, this wolf was […]

This is a bit of a guest post by FTW Games regular Meeker. I may have browbeat the article out of him, but hey Dystopian wars is red hot right now and everyone wants to know more about it! Recently Meeker, like a lot of people around the shop, got into Dystopian Wars and are […]

I used to really enjoy an old article in Inquest Magazine (published for Magic the Gathering) called Dead Man’s Hand.  You would only have one turn left and you had to kill your opponent that turn, or you lose. They showed you your hand and the battlefield, and you had to come up with the […]