Category: Quarter 1
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Quarter 1 Week 7 Update: Marine Squad Deployed!
Hi there. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We’ve had a death in the family this week, so this is going to be a relatively short update without most of the usual pith. SCORECARD A full week in the green. All five tactical marines painted, not quite…
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Quarter 1 Week 6 Update: Even in Death
Hello there. Welcome back to week 6 of quarter 1 of year 4 of the Hammer the Backlog project. It’ll be a brief one this week, as I am away on my summer holidays in the south of France. Nice! SCORECARD Well, despite being away most of the week, I still managed to get some…
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Quarter 1 Week 5 Update: …. I Still Serve
I have awoken, again. Welcome back to week 5 (already?) of quarter 1 of year 4 (already?) of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It’s mostly Warhammer minis, let’s be honest, by why tie ourselves to one franchise when the worlds are our oysters? I have been feeling particularly, and…
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Quarter 1 Week 4 Update: We are the Emperor’s Chosen
Hello and welcome back to week 4 of a very Dawn of War heavy quarter of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Let’s not be coy here, nostalgia is a big part of the attraction of Hammer the Backlog for a lot of you, but who in their right…
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Quarter 1 Week 3 Update: Commencing Infiltration…
You might not have spotted me due to my camouflage, but you have stumbled upon the latest weekly update to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly painting, accountability and productivity blog. Are we still on the high of new year, new project, new energy, or have 2006 moldlines started to drag us down? Read on! SCORECARD…
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Quarter 1 Week 2 Update: There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
Ssssshhhhh…. No talking in the library. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We are only two weeks into a brand new year and new project, and enthusiasm and interest is at an all time high on my end. But will that enthusiasm be enough to carry through…
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Quarter 1 Week 1 Update: Knowledge is Power, Hide it Well
Well, well, well. Wellity, wellity, wellity. If it isn’t another Quarter 1, Week 1 update for Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. The fourth such! Looks like this effort to get all of my 30 years of collected tabletop minis painted has more staying power than even I thought when…
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Quarter 1 Week 13 Update: It’s Thanquol’s Lair, We All Just Live in it
Hello and welcome back to the final week of quarter one of year 3 (!) of Hammer the Backlog. A bittersweet week this week, with all of our panting targets for the quarter hit and a couple of great armies completed, but at the same time a rock killed this quarter, the stress of learning…
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Quarter 1 Week 12 Update: Lizards United!
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog in which I, Mick, the backlog hammerer, attempt to motivate myself to paint my 30 years of collected table-top wargaming miniatures. You join me this week for week twelve of quarter 1. As this is the penultimate week, as…
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Quarter 1 Week 11 Update: A Frog in my Throat
Is that a frog in your throat, or are you just happy to see me? That’s enough mixed metaphors, welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It’s week 11 of 13, can you believe it? The end of the quarter is rapidly approaching, with plenty still left to…
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