Space Marines

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 the comfort […]

Well in keeping with the New Year’s tradition, here is the best of Space Marines that I featured in 2012! If you want to find out more about any of these armies, you can always click on the Space Marines category as well. Welcome to Armies on Parade, where I display (in hopefully good detail) some great looking armies […]

 This article features a technique that turns ordinary looking plastic bases into simulated weathered brick. The actual hobby work shown in this article was done by a friend of mine named, Dave. I think it looks terrific and I hope you will as well.I noticed him working on this a few weeks ago while painting […]

Just recently I discovered that a great looking cosplay suit of power armor that I had seen all over the internet (and featured on here) was actually located only a few counties over here in Virginia! Best part is these guys make all sorts of armor replicas; from Iron Man to Master Chief, they do […]

Hello there my fellow Spikey-nauts! (This is the term I’ve decided to use for us regular Spikey Bits Blog viewers, we’ll see if it sticks.) I suppose an introduction is in order, as this is my first post on the Spikey Bits Blog.  I go by Gruebot on several other web forums, so I think I’ll […]

Welcome to Flashback Fridays, where I dig deep for something cool that I have from back in the day, or a good post from way back (would you believe the blog is almost five years old)?As the year comes to a close, I’m going to countdown the top non- product related posts of the year for you all to […]

Here is a little encore Holiday Presentation of a fun Cosplay video we put together a few weeks ago!Apparently Horus should launch the next Black Crusade with scotch tape, to confound and immobilize all loyalist Astartes. Watch out Cadia! Happy Holidays from White Metal Games, and Spikey Bits!

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 pretty sweet custom 19th Legion […]

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. Checkout this sweet display from WargamesCon 2012 featuring Mad Richard’s Dark Mechanicum […]

Welcome to Flashback Fridays, where I dig deep for something cool that I have from back in the day, or a good post from way back (would you believe the blog is almost five years old)?This month on Fridays, I’m going to countdown the top non- product related posts of the year for you all to enjoy once again. […]

Well over the weekend we had a little fun with the set of Space Marine Armor, and made up some fantastic (IMHO) videos. One of these videos was of a Space Marine trying to wrap presents for his battle brothers. Caleb from White Metal Games co-directed this great video short. While power armor is made […]

Welcome to Apocalypse Now, where we show off some great shots from various normal and Apocalypse sized games at the store, and abroad. Eventually when you click on the Apocalypse Now label you’ll be able to scroll through some pretty sweet action shots of some rather large battles. We played a mock game of 40k the other day at the store, […]

The Land Raider is the longstanding tried and true main battle tank and armored transport of many a Space Marine army.As a model it’s large and makes a great centerpiece and for gaming it’s heavy armor, firepower and transport ability are largely unmatched even with all the wild new models Games Workshop has added to […]

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 the comfort […]

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 the comfort […]

My mom always told me where there is a will, there is a way.  Turns out she was mostly right.Back in the day I wanted a Voltron combiner toy, but being pretty poor at the time well my parents couldn’t make it happen.  But I never really liked being told no when I wanted something, […]

Hey guys, MBG here with a Showcase of my Ad Mech Blood Angels / Space Marine Army! I had been meaning to do this for awhile but didn’t have the time to dig everything out to photograph and make a video until recently. Unfortunately it may be a little too late for me, as I have turned my […]

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 the comfort […]