Category: Quarter 1
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Quarter 1 Week 4 Update: Four is the New Five
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I’m Mick, the one who hammers the backlog, and over the last few days I’ve been suffering my own hell of being a creature biologically designed for the cold having to deal with 30 degree heat every day. So…
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Quarter 1 Week 3 Update: Hammer the Frontlog
Welcome back to week 3 of year 5 (omg) of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It’s been another fabulously productive, start-of-the-year energy week of backlog hammering, so let’s jump straight into it. SCORECARD Another week fully in the green, with 5 little men painted, and all other commitments met.…
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Quarter 1 Week 2 Update: Why the Long Feet?
Welcome back to the dark and mysterious city of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Am I still on a productivity and excitement high after the yearly review and planning sessions, or has the reality of restoring and repairing the models in the worst state in my collection come…
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Quarter 1 Week 1 Update: Nasty Peter
Hello again. It’s year bloomin’ 5! Can you imagine that? Five whole years of hammering the backlog. Well, four whole years done, and on to the fifth. Since new years are usually when the biggest number of new readers come on board, let me briefly introduce myself and the project. I am Mick, and I…
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Quarter 1 Week 13 Update: There’s Only One Juan Diaz
Hi there, welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity, accountability and Juan Diaz fan blog. It’s the end of another quarter already, so join me for the thirteenth ever Hammer the Backlog end of quarter review. SCORECARD It feels about right to count this the classic 2002 Demon Prince as…
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Quarter 1 Week 12 Update: Why the Long Face?
It’s Thursday night, it’s Hammer the Backlog time. Welcome back to the penultimate update from Year 4, Quarter 1. With the Blood Ravens project well and truly in the bag, this week was an opportunity to dip into the esoterica of the pile of shame and pull out some weirdos to paint. Bits and Bobs.…
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Quarter 1 Week 11 Update: Death has Arrived!
It’s Thursday, so that means it’s Hammer the Backlog time. Join me, why don’t you, as I wrap up the quarter 1 project a full two weeks early and spend the rest of the time trying to find something useful to do that won’t take me down an entirely new rabbithole. SCORECARD It’s green! Green…
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Quarter 1 Week 10 Update: The Machine Spirit is Prepared
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the suddenly highly topical mini painting, productivity and accountability blog in which I try to get a mountain of collected Warhammer projects painted before my hands fall off. From too much Warhammer. Lookit, when I decided to do a first born, 2008 style Blood Ravens army about…
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Quarter 1 Week 9 Update: A Moment of Laxity Spawns a Lifetime of Heresy.
Lucky for me, then, that I have been on top of things this week! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I can’t believe it is already week 9 of the Blood Ravens project, time really does fly when you are having fun. Speaking of fun, let’s spend…
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Quarter 1 Week 8 Update: The Emperor’s Finest
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We’re back on solid ground after last week’s disruption, so thank you very much for coming back. Let’s run through our normal week of Hammer the Backlog, taking a look at the weekly scorecard, progress on the quarterly targets…
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