Hammer the Backlog

Miniature Painting – Updated Every Thursday

  • Year 3 Review and Year 4 Target Setting

    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…

    Lee Handsome

    June 12, 2025
    Quarter 4, Updates, Year 3
    games-workshop, miniatures, painting, Pile of Shame, Scorecard, warhammer, warhammer-40k
  • Quarter 3 Week 3 Update: O Captain! My Captain!

    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,…

    Lee Handsome

    January 1, 2026
    Quarter 3, Updates, Year 4
    Empire, Pile of Shame, Quarter 3, Scorecard, Year 4
  • Quarter 3 Week 2 Update: The Spirit of Mondstille

    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…

    Lee Handsome

    December 25, 2025
    Quarter 2, Updates, Year 4
    Empire, Pile of Shame, Quarter 2, Scorecard, Year 4
  • Quarter 3 Week 1 Update: Hungry Like the Wolf

    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,…

    Lee Handsome

    December 18, 2025
    Quarter 3, Updates, Year 4
    Empire, games-workshop, miniatures, painting, Pile of Shame, Scorecard, warhammer, warhammer-40k
  • Quarter 2 Week 13 Update: This Way Up

    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…

    Lee Handsome

    December 11, 2025
    Quarter 2, Updates, Year 4
    games-workshop, hobby, miniatures, painting, Pile of Shame, Quarter 2, Scorecard, warhammer, Year 4
  • Quarter 2 Week 12 Update: Beautiful, on the Inside

    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,…

    Lee Handsome

    December 4, 2025
    Quarter 2, Updates, Year 4
    Bits and Bobs, hobby, miniatures, painting, Pile of Shame, Quarter 2, Scorecard, warhammer, warhammer-40k, Year 4
  • Quarter 2 Week 11 Update: Bricoles

    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.…

    Lee Handsome

    November 27, 2025
    Quarter 2, Updates, Year 4
    Blood Ravens, Bretonnia, fantasy, miniatures, painting, Pile of Shame, Scorecard, warhammer, warhammer-40k
  • Quarter 2 Week 10 Update: Assault on Black Reach? Completed it, Mate.

    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…

    Lee Handsome

    November 20, 2025
    Quarter 2, Updates, Year 4
    art, Assault on Black Reach, hobby, miniatures, Orks, painting, Pile of Shame, Quarter 2, Scorecard, warhammer, Year 4
  • Quarter 2 Week 9 Update: Rhythm is Going to Get You

    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…

    Lee Handsome

    November 13, 2025
    Quarter 2, Updates, Year 4
    Assault on Black Reach, miniatures, Orks, painting, Pile of Shame, Quarter 2, Scorecard, wargaming, warhammer, warhammer-40k, Year 4
  • Quarter 2 Week 8 Update: Mo’ Time, Same Problems

    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…

    Lee Handsome

    November 6, 2025
    Quarter 2, Updates, Year 4
    Assault on Black Reach, miniatures, Orks, painting, Pile of Shame, Quarter 2, Scorecard, warhammer, warhammer-40k, writing, Year 4
  • Quarter 2 Week 7 Update: Wake Me Up When Orktober Ends

    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.…

    Lee Handsome

    October 30, 2025
    Quarter 2, Updates, Year 4
    Assault on Black Reach, marathon, Orks, painting, Pile of Shame, Quarter 2, running, Scorecard, training, warhammer, Year 4
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