Rob Baer

I’m back with part two of my Tyranid play tests. I’ve learned a lot so far about these guys and how they work.  So far I’ve been working with the swarm mentality, but after these last games I’m beginning to think that some spores may be necessary to take down Mech lists that are designed […]

Okay so this just hit, and you gotta admit its pretty funny. I’m sure it will go viral soon. For the record Spikey Bits does not agree with the war, the holocaust, natzis or their zombies.  But I do like satire….

So I had a chance to playtest my nids over the last week, and overall I’m very happy with their performance.  I’ve learned a lot and I think these guys really can do some damage to all comers, including Imperial Guard Mech. My first list variant went up against my Ork Mech Guard. You can […]

Well I’m putting the finishing touches on my Ork Guard army and getting ready to to battle this weekend in the Cabin Fever ’10 GT.  This event is put on by Rich Ditzler of Adventurers Guild Gaming in Harrisburg, PA.  For those of you that don’t know Rich, he is both a great guy and […]

Hey checkout all the great new Tyranid articles over at From The Warp. Inside the Hive Mind Its a great page of blog compilations from around the web, all dealing with the new release of the bugs. Be sure to check back here later this week 1/29 for my big Tyranid Playtest report. -MBG

Well I’m back again, taking a break from playtesting and converting up my Waterbugz, to take a closer look at the new big nasty Trygon.  I had the good fortune to purchase one from Forgewold a few years ago, but never got around to painting it. So now we can compare these two close up! […]

A long time ago in the midst of the rise of “Zillanids” I started my Tyranid army. One of the things I wanted to do was make my bugs look different that anyone elses. I had seen some people convert their Canifexes by mounting them on their short shaft of a tail, and remove the […]

Here is my WIP conversion of the new Tyranid Harpy model.   It’s basically supposed to be a flying monstrous creature, so I figured I’d base it off the Carnifex and let the rest just materialize as I go.  I’ll be working on cranking out all the special Tyranid creatures over the next few months, […]

Here is my current 1850 Imperial Guard Army List. This is a pretty competitive list and won’t make you a lot of friends in casual play. I took the Pysker Battle Squad out because I feel the Psyhic Hood is a better buy for the rise of Tyranid powers and proof against the standard threats […]

Hope everyone had a happy holiday!  Well I’m back with a full belly and some new conversions for everyone to checkout. Here are some Imperial Guard Greatcoat / Traitor Guard conversions that are easy to convert and will  really make your foot troops stand out. You can really have some fun with these conversions because […]

Here is a gallery of painted figures I have produced.  I plan to update this page very regularly with new work, as well as old work, as I photograph it. These pics should also be in a slideshow on the right nav bar of this blog. If you have any questions about how I painted […]

One of the coolest conversions I’ve ever done is the Imperial Guard Valkyrie Jet. The best part about this model is that can represent almost any flying vehicle in the Warhammer 40k universe.Just add some Lascannons on the wingtips and you have a Lightning, or model both engines, one each wing, and you have a […]

Here is a closer look at my Vendetta “Choppas” for my Orky Guard army.  Of course I started out with the normal kit, and supplemented it a bit.  I had a few pieces left over from some Valkyrie jet conversions I did a while back. (more on those soon!) So I splashed a few extra […]

Okay so it’s been a few weeks since this happened, but here it is the battle report from my victory at Mechanicon ’09. I was running the Rebel Ork Guard list from last post and pictured here. It appears that some Death Skullz went a little wild looting guard vehicles- they even followed their army […]

Well I just got back from the Mechanicon GT ’09. I ended up taking best overall in 5 grueling games against some very good opponents. The GT was great with a lot of tough missions and amazing terrain. The great Jawaballs was in attendance with his Blood Angels, but unfortunately we did not get a […]

Welcome back true believers! Now that I got my sweet scenic bases it’s time to mount the ladz to them. Of course in the process of matching them up to the bases I realized that they hadn’t been updated with new bits from the Nobz box set, so after a few Mad Dok specials here […]

Well it was a long week, but I managed to get the bases all painted up and the Nobz mounted on them. Here are the bases, all finished up and flocked.  As you can see I trimmed some of the scrap bits down from the original design to make the overall base more streamlined. Some […]

The other day I saw some painted Ork Nob bikers on e-Bay with some pretty sweet converted bases. Seeing how my ladz were conveniently without bases, and therefore less cooler than the models I saw for up auction felt I had to act. The main problem I ran into was that I wanted to have […]