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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 4 Week 6 Update: What’s Green and Red and Gold All Over?

Senlui! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It has been a heck of a busy week in real life this week, with very busy and tiring work days taking up a lot of my energy and time. Has that impacted the Hammer the Backlog project negatively? Only…
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Quarter 4 Week 5 Update: Shot Through the Heart

The Majestic Eagle’s call to you all, dear readers, and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. Did I manage to stay on target this week? Or did my shot go wide? Only one way to find out! SCORECARD Another bullseye this week, fully in the green. I…
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Quarter 4 Week 4 Update: Six is the New Five

Welcome back to another week of Hammer the Backlog, the internet’s first and greatest mini painting blog. Look, not everything on the internet has to be true. We live in a post truth world. Anyway, what is true is that Hammer the backlog is a weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog, and that each…
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Quarter 4 Week 3 Update: Nothing Borrowed, Nothing Blue

Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Each week I take a look at the week’s scorecard to make sure that the overall Hammer the Backlog project is progressing nicely, then have a look at the progress on quarterly targets and any issues that have come up during…
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Quarter 4 Week 2 Update: Lord, Give me Lacoi

Senlue, fellow guardians of Ulthuan. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, stress, productivity, stress and accountability blog. Why all the stress? Well, have you ever painted High Elves to a self imposed strict deadline? Have you? Then you would know! No, it’s fine, I promise. I even have some sneaky plans…
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Quarter 4 Week 1 Update: Happy Little Elves

Hello and welcome to the first week of quarter 4 of year 4 (Really? Can you believe it?) of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog where I try to use an operating system to turn 25 years of buyer’s remorse back into joy. Every year, at the start of…
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Quarter 3 Week 13 Update: Finish Him!

Welcome back to the final week of quarter 3 of year 4 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. It’s been a heck of a week of video making, and there has been a probably unneeded trip to the hospital (I’m fine!), so read on for the weekly scorecard, project…
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Quarter 3 Week 12 Update: Murder on the Reik (and the Back)

Hello there me hearties and welcome… No wait, I did the pirate thing last week didn’t I? Well, you write 200 blog updates in four years and try to be original! This is Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It’s the penultimate week of quarter 3 of year 4, and…
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Quarter 3 Week 11 Update: Something Fishy Going On

Hello there me hearties, and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly scurvy mini painting, accountability, plundering and productivity blog. I am Captain Mick of the good ship backlog, Manaan bless everyone who sails under her flag. SCORECARD Another week fully in the green, presumably not unlike the gangrenous toes of Von Klumpf’s Buccaneers,…
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Quarter 3 Week 10 Update: Porcupine

Hello there. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. When I say mini painting, it’s pretty much almost all Warhammer. You join me today as we approach the end of another quarter, with 3 full weeks left to go in quarter 3 of year 4. Year bloody 4,…



