Quarter 3 Week 5 Update: Dammit Shopping Mick, You Were Supposed to be the Best of Us!

Hello there. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. There’s a lot of red in the ledger this week guys, and there’s only one person to blame….

Read on to find out who it is.

Nah, I’m messing, it’s me obviously. I’m the only one here after all.

SCORECARD

A double whammy of reds this week with 0 models finished and a big fat red 1 in the “Holdups due to missing supplies column”. So what went wrong? Well, first of all, it’s not quite as bad as it looks. Shure, I got 0 models actually finished and photographed ready for Instagram, but I did get the first five Chaos Cultists themselves fully painted, just not their bases.

I really mucked up on the bases this week. I decided last week that I wanted to go with spaceship / hive city bases for this entire box set, Dark Vengeance. I knew that I had 25 mm spaceship bases, since I had one in my bits box. I also knew that I had plenty of 32 mm spaceship bases. Well guess how many 25mm spaceship bases I had in my box. Go ahead. Guess. Yes. One. That one that I was looking at. A dash to my local GW and LFGS only proved that these types of things aren’t kept in stock and have to be ordered in. I probably have them in my hands as you read this. That’s a bit of a failure, Shopping Mick, you’ve got to do better.

Ah well, I suppose it can’t be 100% all the time!

THIS WEEK’S MODELS

This week’s models are the first 5 chaos cultists from Dark Vengeance. I decided to go with the exact same colour scheme that I used on my Blackstone Traitor Guardsmen, since if you look closely enough there is lots of evidence that these guys were intended to be long since fallen guardsmen, or maybe they have scanaged their gear from defeated regiments?

They were a fun rabble to paint, especially the “commissar” with his cool Chaos star.

One of the challenges of these guys was that I actually started them about 10 years ago, when I was a much worse painter, and a much less patient model builder and mould line remover. On several of them I was almost finished before I found a mould line that 2024 Mick would be appalled by.

On the other hand, one of the benefits of having a brush in my hand so often due to Hammer the Backlog is that it has made painting so easy. The reason I abandoned this project originally is lost to time with all of the other projects, but did I abandon it? Were the models too complicated? Did I expect them to be easy and become disheartened? Did something new and shiny come along and steal my attention before I finished them? I suppose I’ll never know.

But what I do know is that for 2024, Hammer the Backlog, organised, habit forming Mick, they were both a breeze to paint and a joy.

Anyway, look, I have a good bit of catching up to do, so I hope you will forgive me a slightly shorter update this week.

See you next week for 10 completed models on finished bases!