RESCHEDULED! Don’t miss your chance to win Creature Caster’s new King of War tonight, June 26th at 8pm while watching our latest hobby tutorial on Twitch.
Severe thunderstorms knocked out the stream last night, but they can’t stop the signal for long. We’re back tonight at 8pm EST with more painting and the King of War top D giveaway.
The Spikey Bits Hobby Report is back again in 2018, and is still your weekly resource to help keep your hobby muscles strong!
New Summer Schedule: don’t miss the show every Monday at 9pm and now Tuesdays at 8pm (both Eastern Time) on Twitch that will feature the latest news and rumors from around the web, with a sprinkle of live product unboxings, hobby tutorials, and giveaways to boot!
New Summer Live Show Schedule
New in 2018, we will also be streaming at 8pm to 9pm Tuesdays as well in between Slowfuse Gaming, and Next Level Painting:
Plus don’t miss the new Friday Convoy lineup featuring Slowfuse, Next Level Painting, and Key Lime Prime. (Note times above are in Pacific)
What the heck are Catnaps, and what can you use them for?
- Redeeming them for gifts on our redemptions page, OR one of the gift bags below (including your very own spin on the Cat Box Wheel).
- Entering our BIG end of month giveaway, usually on the last stream of the month.
- If you win or redeem for a Cat Box giveaway, you can spend 500 Catnaps to choose your prize from the list, or 200 Catnaps to re-spin the prize.
- You can also use them to purchase tickets for random giveaways we do on stream from time to time.
Catnaps will reset monthly, however you can get a huge chunk of Catnaps just for watching all of our LIVE streams each month and subscribing to us in-stream.
Monday stream’s Top Donator will win the new creature caster King of War miniature new in box from our unboxing video!
Don’t forget you can redeem the points you earn in-stream for tons of cool swag including our new selection of painted and pre-assembled miniatures from the Spikey Bits prize vault!
Below is the list of commands to enter LIVE in-stream, to redeem your Catnaps for various gift bags and merchandise:
Get painted miniatures & more on our redemption page
Shipping is FREE & included with your redemption!
1200 Catnaps: The Hobby Gift Bag
!redeem 1
Spikey Bits Hobby Gift Bag Contains Resin bases a 4×6 Sticker Sheet of Emoticons & a Button!
1500 Catnaps: Premium Mystery Miniatures Crate
Contains $50 MSRP of mostly 40k miniatures, but some FFG, Infinity, Age of Sigmar, and other Wargaming hobby supplies as well.
!redeem 2
Miniatures Crates contain a random mix of the following types of products and game systems:
2500 Catnaps: Your Very Own Cat Box
!redeem 3
Activate a spin on the Cat Box Wheel. If you win or redeem for a Cat Box giveaway, you can spend another 200 Catnaps to re-spin the prize, or 500 Catnaps to choose your prize on there!
Cat Box gift lineup chosen via spin from the list below:
- One Predetermined Warhammer 40k Unit and a Character Model on sprue
- One Predetermined Warhammer 40k Unit and a Character Model on sprue
- One Predetermined Warhammer 40k Unit and a Character Model on sprue
- One Predetermined Age of Sigmar Unit and a Character Model on sprue
- One Predetermined Age of Sigmar Unit and a Character Model on sprue
- One Predetermined Shadespire Expansion
- One Predetermined Shadespire Expansion
- One Infinity the Game Starter Set
- Choice of one Privateer Press Warmachine or Hordes large box kit
- Choice of one Large Ship from Star Wars X-Wing or Armada
- Hobby Mystery Box of Various Brushes, Tufts, and Paints.
4000 Catnaps: The Big Baller Mystery Miniatures Crate
Contains $150 MSRP of mostly 40k miniatures, but some FFG, Infinity, Age of Sigmar, and other Wargaming hobby supplies as well.
!redeem 4
Miniatures Crates contain a random mix of the following types of products and game systems:
Check out the exact redemption breakdown below:
Get your first 100 Catnaps right now just by following us over on Twitch!
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About the Author: Rob Baer
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 currently hosts the 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, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 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 over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.
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, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to 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.
