Category: Quarter 2
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Quarter 2 Week 7 Update: I’ve Made a Grave Error
Hello fellow ghouls, welcome back to this Halloween update of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting productivity and accountability blog. You join me this week on a very busy week, with Halloween and my lovely lady wife’s birthday double teaming me with distraction, leading to (or perhaps just exasperating) a bit of a muck…
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Quarter 2 Week 6 Update: Get Down Off There!
Well hello there fellow mages! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, my weekly accountability, productivity and warhammer painting blog. I promised myself a slightly easier week after the strain of getting 20 highly detailed High Elf infantry models painted over the last four weeks, and an easier week I did indeed have! Let’s take a…
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Quarter 2 Week 5 Update: Phew
I was going to quote Scott of the Antarctic as the opener for this week’s blog, to represent the level of hardship and toll that painting these five models in a week had taken on me. But then I read the damned dairy and that felt a bit extreme to be honest. So instead, welcome…
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Quarter 2 Week 4 Update: Elvis
I’m all bloody shook up this week by the amount of time and effort it took to paint up these five Elvis. Elvis is the plural of Elves, right? Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting blog which uses accountability and productivity methods to help me get 25 years of hoarded miniatures…
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Quarter 2 Week 3 Update: Maximum Effort
Hi there! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog. Elves! Sorry, it’s been a tough week painting very intricate models and every waking moment and thought has been consumed by ELVES! Sorry again. I’m sure that will stop happening. Elves! Nope. Still there. In all and anyways, Hammer the Backlog is a weekly blog in which…
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Quarter 2 Week 2 Update: Stop Making A Scene!
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the mini painting, accountability and productivity blog! In classic “New Quarter, New You!” fashion, this week has been both an absolute joy to get into and a flurry of activity that I will spend the next 10 weeks trying to keep up with! If this week’s new…
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Quarter 2 Week 1 Update: The Last Italian
Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Wargaming mini painting, accountability and productivity blog, where this week we are getting a start on quarter 2 of year 3 of the project. As with every other time, a new quarter brings new quarterly rocks. Hammer the Backlog is all about me using the methodology of…
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Quarter 2 Week 13 Update: Pulled it out of the Fire
Well hello there! Thanks for coming back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer (mostly) mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. This week was the last week of quarter 2 of year 2, with all the associated highs and lows of that time for the project. I thought I had some pretty big misses this…
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Quarter 2 Week 12 Update: Expect the Unexpected
Hello, hello! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer miniature painting, accountability and productivity blog. It’s been another heck of a week around Backlog Central, with bad planning, forgetfulness and distractions nearly combining to make me miss a deadline for the first time! But let’s assume I managed to pull it off, and…
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Quarter 2 Week 11 Update: Did he Say Lamb as You?
Hi there! Thanks for coming back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. The big winner this week was the productivity and accountability side of things, as painting motivation took a real slump! Read on to find out how I managed to stop a slump in wanting to paint…
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