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 350 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 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 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 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 […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
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 Vampire Counts Terrorgheist, on display […]
Read More
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 alternative color scheme Razorback by Yepimadork. […]
Read More
Recently TPM and I did an interview for Adepticon about our plans for defending our Team Tournament title this year. You can check it out over on the main Adepticon page here; http://www.adepticon.org/. We’ve just about put the finishing touches on assembly for our new army, and are just waiting to see on some new releases […]
Read More
Today is the 100th Armies on Parade article post! Hurrrah! So for this special occasion I’m featuring the current incarnation of my Iron Angels (Iron Hands, Adeptus Mechanicus Themed Blood Angels). Normally when 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 […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
Well there is less than 100 days left until Adepticon 2012, and for a lot of us there is a ton more left to do still to get ready. One thing to not overlook in your preparations, is the 2012 Adepticon Charity raffle. GMM studios painted another spectacular army this year, and you can even buy […]
Read More
Hey guys! Just wanted to get on on here and let you know that we just restocked and rolled back a tone of prices on Necron, Grey Knights, Space Wolves, and Blood Angels bits. So if you were looking for to make that one perfect conversion, now just may be the time to do it. […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
Check out this sweet super battle wagon conversion by Matt Sabol (of Army Transport fame). This thing is way more Orky than the standard kit, as any Warboss would be thrilled to smash this into the ‘umies lines! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!! Besides making foam cases to keep our minis safe, Matt Sabol actually does conversion commissions, and more. […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
What would happen if the Emperor of Mankind was surrounded and cut off by the Forces of Chaos on the table top? Well that exact thing happened back at the Feast of Blades GT when Kenny Boucher’s Daemons fought a converted Adetpus Custodes army (counts as Grey Knights). During the game Kenny’s Bloodcrushers surrounded and cut off the Emperor (who I think […]
Read More
Yepimadork came up with this themed escalation army back in the dawn of 5th Edition. He named his custom chapter the Hammer of the Forge, and they rock. Besides converting the dreads to be the un-released at the time Ironclads, he also painted up the army in a non-conventional scheme and based it as if […]
Read More
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 Red Scorpions Land Raider Achilles on […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
Check out this awesome all plastic conversion for everyone’s favorite Lord of Death, Mephiston.Zail posted this finished conversion up recently over on his Warhammer Blog, and it rocks. All the normal Mephiston elements are there, and head even reminds me of a young Sgt. Centurious from the Legion of the Damned. Lets take a closer look…. […]
Read More