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Welcome to Hammer the Backlog
HOW WE GOT HERE The year was, I think, 1998. A young Mick, fresh off of years of successfully looking like the third, less attractive brother from the Proclaimers, somehow got his hands on the Playstation port of the first inarguably good Warhammer game, Warhammer: Dark Omens. Young Mick was aware of young women and […]
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Quarter 3, Week 7 Update: Inside Every Man there are Two Beasts
A hungry beast and a tired beast. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly miniature painting, accountability and productivity blog that follows my big dumb adventures in getting my years and years’ worth of unpainted tabletop wargaming miniatures painted. Every week we take a look at the overall progress of the project by starting […]
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Quarter 3, Week 6 Update: Traitors, One and All!
Hello there, traitorous scum! Welcome back to week 6 of the third quarter of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly tabletop wargame and mini painting accountability and productivity blog. This week was an unexpectedly fun week of going back to basics, and a bit of a realisation on the fickleness of trends. Let’s start, as always, […]
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Quarter 3, Week 5 Update: Faith and Psychic Abominations
Hello and welcome back to another week of Hammer the Backlog, the Warhammer painting and accountability blog. This week has been a challenging one, despite having some really fun models to paint. Before we get to my whinging, let’s take a look at this week’s scorecard. SCORECARD Another week fully in the green, but another […]
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Quarter 3, Week 4 Update: Kravv’Cha’To and Unpaid Internships
Welcome back to the fourth week of the third quarter of the first year of Hammer the Backlog, the painting and accountability blog that is keeping track of my foolhardy quest to get all of my existing tabletop wargaming and boardgame miniatures painted without going mad. Every week we take a look at the score […]
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Quarter 3, Week 3 Update: Long Hauler Gamma-3-Beta
Welcome back to the final Hammer the Backlog update for the calendar year 2022, where this week we leave the green green grass of retro Warhammer Fantasy behind for the time being and apply the Hammer the Backlog accountability and productivity methodology to the grim far future of Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress. Since Hammer the […]
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Quarter 3, Week 2 Update: Enemy Sighted!
Welcome to the penultimate Hammer the Backlog update for 2022! Strap yourself in for a little dose of pre-Christmas Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blogging! Let’s start with a second to last look at the scorecard. SCORECARD Another sweep of green this week, without any major hold ups or delays. I managed to push […]
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Quarter 3, Week 1 Update: We Fear the Enemy!
Hello and welcome back to Quarter 3 of Hammer the Backlog, the relentless Warhammer painting, accountability and productivity blog, where all of the targets are SMART, even if I’m dumb as a brick. A nice little throwback to Dark Omen there in the title, for the real deep cut nerds among us. As this is […]
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Quarter 2, Week 13 Update: The Highest of Highs and the Mediumest of Lows
Welcome back to the final instalment of Hammer the Backlog Quarter 2, where this week we learned the real value of rocks and the absolute dread of a corrupted SD card. Please do read on for a rollercoaster of emotions. SCORECARD A little bit of red in the ledger this week, with only two models […]
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Quarter 2, Week 12 Update: You’ve Got The Green Knight!
Hello Dev Patels and welcome back to week 12 of the second quarter of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly miniature painting and accountability blog, that this week is all about that sweet, sweet target-hitting! Let’s start things off, as they did in Arthurerian times, with a look at this week’s productivity scorecard. SCORECARD Not only […]
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Quarter 2, Week 11 Update: It’s All Part of the Great Plan
Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly miniature painting and accountability blog, where this week we managed to knock off an absolutely huge target! Strap in for things to get pretty exciting. (If you like plastic models from 1996) Let’s not get too excited though, and start this week with the scorecard, just like […]
Miniature Painting – Updated Every Thursday
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