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Iron Within, Centurions Without- Conversion Corner

The new Space Marine Centurion models have been out for a few months now, and while they haven’t made a big splash yet on the tournament scene, I’ve still got big plans for them! Since I’m a long time chaos player, I feel the need to “chaosify” any model that the followers of the false […]

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By Rob Baer | November 14th, 2013 | 0 min read

How To: Magnetizing Flight Stands Securely

Sick of your skimmers always falling of their bases, or drooping onto the table? Time to magnetize your flight stands! It’s actually pretty easy AND affordable to magnetize a whole army’s worth of skimmers all in one go, and I’ll show you how. All you need are some 1/4″ x 1/16 magnets and accompanying drill […]

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By Rob Baer | September 3rd, 2013 | 0 min read

Gothic Marine Conversion- Dark Angels / Black Templars

Check out this super easy to make “Gothic” styled loyalist Space Marine. Originally this was my test mini for a new Black Templars army, but he could easily sub for any chapter especially Dark Angels! This is just a quick “Flashback Friday” re-post of a previous article from early 2012, but it goes great with the new Dark […]

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By Rob Baer | January 31st, 2013 | 0 min read

Gothic Marine Conversion- Dark Angels / Black Templars

Check out this super easy to make “Gothic” styled loyalist Space Marine. Originally this was my test mini for a new Black Templars army, but he could easily sub for any chapter espically Dark Angels! And since everyone and their mom will have some Dark Angels soon form the Dark Vengeance Starter, this conversion can […]

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By Rob Baer | September 5th, 2012 | 0 min read

How To: Making Sternguard Combi-Meltas MKII

Today I took another crack at converting one of the hottest bits on the market today; the Combi-Melta gun. Here at Spikey Bits, we still cant seem to keep this particular bit in stock, and routinely cut down whole commander kits at a time, just for this one component. It’s pretty bad when I don’t […]

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By Rob Baer | July 11th, 2012 | 0 min read

How To: Carbon Scoring- Add a Little Detail to Your Weapons!

Well it appears I may have impressed some folks with a few Work in Progress shots I put up last night on Facebook.I like posting quick pictures to Facebook using my phone, cause it’s easy to make a small catalog of what I’m working on without stopping every five seconds and setting up photo equipment etc. So […]

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By Rob Baer | July 10th, 2012 | 0 min read

How-To: Quick and Easy Purity Seals

Following up my  Lightning Effect tutorial, today I have quick how-to on Purity Seals that is also really easy to do.I did this tutorial using the same Grey Knight Purifiers that I’ve been painting up lately, as well.  So I definitely wanted something quick and easy that could be repeated like 200 times. After talking […]

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By Rob Baer | May 1st, 2012 | 0 min read

Lightning Strikes- Painting on Weapon Effects

Today I have a fast little tutorial on lightning effects on weapons, that is really easy to do. I’ve been painting up a bunch of Grey Knight Purifiers lately for lower point games of 40k, and really wanted the blades to stand out. So after a couple of tries I came up with this quick […]

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By Rob Baer | April 30th, 2012 | 0 min read

Federated States of America: Dreadnought!

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 Meeker’s Dystopian Wars Dreadnought for the Federated States […]

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By Rob Baer | March 7th, 2012 | 0 min read

New Dreadnought- Britannia’s Big Stick

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 Jkin’s enormous Dreadnought from Dystopian Wars. […]

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By Rob Baer | February 29th, 2012 | 0 min read

Amazing Britannia Carrier- Dystopian Wars

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 Jkin’s Britannia Carrier from Dystopian Wars. […]

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By Rob Baer | February 14th, 2012 | 0 min read

Double Decker Taco? Aircraft Carrier- Dystopian Wars

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 Meeker’s double-decker Federated States of America […]

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By Rob Baer | February 5th, 2012 | 0 min read