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.
My buddy Joe Carlson came up to me at Games Day last weekend with this very nicely done Abaddon conversion using his pewter bits with a new plastic terminator. I had to take a few pics of the mini so I could share with you all!Get Featured! If you have a unique conversion and would […]
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Just a reminder our Miniature Market will be next Saturday Sept. 4th at 11am. It also happens to be the same day the new Warhammer Fantasy 8th Edition Box Sets go on sale. So there is two great reasons to come up (well three if you count swapping out your High Elves or Skaven models […]
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Okay we all had some time to think about it. So here are the moves you can make to achieve victory over the Space Marines. Daemons Are Scary The biggest hurdle to winning this game is the rhino lurking on the left. It’s unassuming but it can single handily keep the Daemons from winning. […]
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Here is some HD video of the Golden Demon winners at US Games Day 2010. Pretty amazing stuff. Congrats to all!
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The appointed time has come, and we have a new winner for the Spikey Bits monthly give-away! Since I have a few more followers now, I had to change up how I selected a winner this time. What I ended up doing was select a finalist at random from each page of followers, and then […]
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This is a quick and easy method I use for the white warpaint on my orky vehicles. The base coat is a foundation color, which is great for going on over the blue paint of the hulls. Now you don’t have to get all fancy and neat and stuff, cause it’s the grots that are […]
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Here is some great coverage of the painted / display model Forge World Cabinets that were at Games Day 2010.A lot of these models were the ones from the Imperial Armor books, and the FW website as well. Very cool! Revising come back soon. Am I the only one that gets all excited to hobby, […]
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I had been thinking about making some “Chaotic” Thunderwolf Calvary models for awhile now. When I saw the preview models for the Bloodcrushers a few weeks ago, I knew I’d be adding some “space wolf lords” to my Chaos army. So I just got some of the new Bloodcrushers and started converting them up. Here […]
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Man time flies! In two days, August 25th to be exact, I will select another blog follower at random to win this box of brand new Bloodcrushers of Khorne. All you have to do to enter, is be a follower of this blog! -MBG
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I saw these guys the other day, along with the Ku’Gath model I posted earlier, and was really really impressed with them. The are brought to us by the same Nuglely genius; isotope99. This is his walk through of how to make plastic plague bearers (which if you are chaotic at heart like me, this […]
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Hey guys, this is a joint article Big Red and I did over at BoLS. The full video of the whole Forge World preview display case is at the bottom. Be sure to check it out. Enjoy- MBG Big Red: Well, we got a bunch of pics of the Badab War minis and the cover […]
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Well they say everything is bigger in Texas. Cliche I know, but wait till you see this Apocalypse Coverage. Some of these models were made by Dave Taylor, and Victor Hardy, amazing! Nice huh? -MBG
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We’ve all issues with primer- whether it was too much, too little, flakes, or fuzzy paint it’s one of the most frustrating parts of the hobby. Mastering this basic technique is easy however- as the most common solution is to not prime your minis in high humidity. Also keep in mind the distance between the […]
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Hey everyone. I just posted up some video of the event over at YouTube. Check out my channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/rbaer0002, I’ll be posting up coverage all day.
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There can be only one! This year in North America Games Day will be held in Baltimore, MD. Spikey Bits and friends will be there checking out the festivities, and hanging with Jawaballs, Brass Scorpion, and more. I just posted up some video of the event over at YouTube. Check out my channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/rbaer0002, I’ll […]
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One of the most highly requested model kits has now been released in plastic, and best of all you get three in one box! The new kit is by far superior to the old pewter ones. There is a ton of gubbins in the new box, along with alternate horn options for the Juggernauts as […]
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More Awesome armies from BoLS’ War Games Con 2010, this time in Gallery form! THE HIVE MIND ADAPTS!
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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 […]
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