Category: Quarter 2
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Quarter 2 Week 6: Half a Tank in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush
It’s almost the halfway point of quarter 2 of year 5 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. It’s nearly holiday and birthday time for me, which is usually a time of slight slacking and the occasional unavoidable addition to the backlog due to gifts. Will that happen this year?…
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Quarter 2 Week 5 Update: Does this Proboscis Make Me Look Bloated?
Please ignore that smell. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the filthy weely mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. With the Plague Marines from Dark Imperium finished last week, it was a slight change of gears this week to picking out the next project. Did I go ahead wand start the 20 Pox Walkers like…
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Quarter 2 Week 4 Update: Progress or Decay
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We’ve hit one of the bigger milestones in the quarter 2 goals this week, as well as accidentally hitting another. Join me for a weekly dive into scorecards, targets and painted models. SCORECARD Ignore the actual red in the…
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Quarter 2 Week 3 Update: Seven, Is the Magic Number
Welcome back, puss-filled rotbags, to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We’re already about a quarter of the way into quarter 2 of year five, and I’ve just put the finishing touches on the first full unit of models from the Warhammer Conquest collection I collected (collected is a euphemism…
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Quarter 2 Week 2 Update: I’m Disgusted With Myself
Hello there, fellow puss filled grubs, and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly disease spreading, productivity and accountability blog. And mini painting! This week has been a classic week 2 week. Things are moving along, everything from this quarter is still new and fresh, and I have lots to talk about, if relatively…
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Quarter 2 Week 1 Update: Why Do You Have To Be So Gross, Michael?
Hello and Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I’ll leave you to guess if this week’s title is related to the minis I’m currently painting, or just something that my mother said to me because I was discussing bodily functions at the dinner table. Again. SCORECARD All green…
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Quarter 3 Week 2 Update: The Spirit of Mondstille
Merry Christmas one and all! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog that publishes every Thursday evening, come hell or high water. Or Christmas. Lookit, the fact that it’s the biggest cultural celebration of the year, and that I just finished up work yesterday, is no excuse for…
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Quarter 2 Week 13 Update: This Way Up
Welcome back to another Hammer the Backlog update, and another end of quarter review! It’s been a long and rocky road to getting everything done this quarter, topped off with some hectic and ever so slightly stressful fun getting some bits and bobs painted. Let’s take a look at the scorecard, this week’s model, the…
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Quarter 2 Week 12 Update: Beautiful, on the Inside
Hello there fellow spacefarers. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly, mostly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You are probably just as shocked to hear this as I am, but we are well into December 2025, meaning Christmas break is rapidly approaching, and I have just two weeks left of Year 4,…
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Quarter 2 Week 11 Update: Bricoles
Hello there! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting (not orks), productivity and accountability blog. This week, I’ve been painting pretty much anything but Orks. A classic end-of-quarter Bits and Bobs update for you this week. Or bricoles, as the French would say. Why is that relevant? Read on to find out.…
