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Year 3 Review and Year 4 Target Setting

Well hello there. Thanks for coming. Welcome to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog run by me, Mick. In this update we are going to look at the last 52 weeks of the year 2024/2025 and start planning for next year, 2025/2026. Please, take my hand and join me as…
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Quarter 3 Week 3 Update: O Captain! My Captain!

New Year, new you? No! Nothing ever changes here at Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. Not for us Backlog Hammerers the ephemeral waxing and waning of motivation that January and New Year’s resolutions bring. Oh no. We have a full year of models more or less already planned out,…
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Quarter 3 Week 2 Update: The Spirit of Mondstille

Merry Christmas one and all! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog that publishes every Thursday evening, come hell or high water. Or Christmas. Lookit, the fact that it’s the biggest cultural celebration of the year, and that I just finished up work yesterday, is no excuse for…
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Quarter 3 Week 1 Update: Hungry Like the Wolf

It’s the start of a new quarter, and a whole new set of targets and models for Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Buckle up and strap yourself in for our quarterly look at the three months to come, the weekly scorecard, the new targets and even, if we’re lucky,…
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Quarter 2 Week 13 Update: This Way Up

Welcome back to another Hammer the Backlog update, and another end of quarter review! It’s been a long and rocky road to getting everything done this quarter, topped off with some hectic and ever so slightly stressful fun getting some bits and bobs painted. Let’s take a look at the scorecard, this week’s model, the…
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Quarter 2 Week 12 Update: Beautiful, on the Inside

Hello there fellow spacefarers. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly, mostly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You are probably just as shocked to hear this as I am, but we are well into December 2025, meaning Christmas break is rapidly approaching, and I have just two weeks left of Year 4,…
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Quarter 2 Week 11 Update: Bricoles

Hello there! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting (not orks), productivity and accountability blog. This week, I’ve been painting pretty much anything but Orks. A classic end-of-quarter Bits and Bobs update for you this week. Or bricoles, as the French would say. Why is that relevant? Read on to find out.…
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Quarter 2 Week 10 Update: Assault on Black Reach? Completed it, Mate.

I’m freeeeeeee! After 10 weeks of painting up the Ork half of the Assault on Black Reach boxed set, from next week I’ll be free to do something else! Huzzah! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. The accountability part of that sentence has been doing a lot…
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Quarter 2 Week 9 Update: Rhythm is Going to Get You

Hi there! It’s Hammer the Backlog time! Another Thursday evening, another 5 points worth of models finished. Hammer the Backlog is the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Some weeks, I don’t have that much to say. But even in those weeks, there will be a blog. This is one of those weeks! SCORECARD…
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Quarter 2 Week 8 Update: Mo’ Time, Same Problems

Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, ya gitz. Hammer the Backlog is my weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Every week I paint some models, fill in an accountability scorecard, write up the week’s issues and news and present it all to you, the dear readers. Like many week eights, this week eight has…
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Quarter 2 Week 7 Update: Wake Me Up When Orktober Ends

Green day? Green bloody month more like it! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer (mostly) mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I am Mick, the one who Hammers the Backlog. Please join me as we pass the midway point for yet another project and have an exceptionally busy week in real life.…



