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.
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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First off Happy Holidays from the Spikey Bits crew! It’s been a great year for modeling as we have been gifted with some awesome kits. Thanks also for all the support this year. We’ve grown a lot in the past year, and look forward to 2012. Enjoy the day, and try not to eat too […]
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New Goodies from Forgeworld, just in time for the Holidays. I’m still stoked about all the new stuff lately, and have bought more than my fair share. But when I go to look a the kits I want, I can never tell what is just plastic, and what is resin. So I think I may do […]
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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 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 festive Papa Nurgle on display […]
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WOOT, it’s sale time again! From now until Monday night get 30% OFF all Bits items, and an extra 5% OFF the already marked down prices on everything else in the store. Ill just let how amazing that is sink in for a second…. Okay, so if that wasn’t enough, get FREE SHIPPING on BITS! everyday to the USA. […]
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It’s true. I guess the guy that made the Java scripts that were “broken” fixed them, and all is right with the world now. Enjoy the recent Conversions, Painted, Army Lists, and Army showcase widgets as normal.
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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. I picked this Rhino up in eBay lot a few years ago, […]
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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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It’s true. I broke Spikey Bits….sigh. Apparently some sweet Java widgets I was using do not work anymore, and Blogger did me a favor and took them down. Which killed a lot of the sweet pictures on the site (and pieces of my soul). If you happen to know of any better widgets that display […]
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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 a sweet Chaos Titan that was on […]
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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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Don’t wait, WargamesCon is coming soon (well okay its like six months away, but still) get your ticket today! There are several must attend events to go to each year, and this is one of them. I’ve been the past two years (I think- I don’t remember much of one of them due to an […]
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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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