Category: Quarter 3
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Quarter 3 Week 3 Update: Why So Blue?
Hello there! Thank you very much for coming back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly table top mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. In fact, welcome to the most normal week of Hammer the Backlog we’ve had in ages! No deadlines looming, no big video projects, no Christmas break or flu! Just a normal week…
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Quarter 3 Week 2 Update: Gordon’s Alive!?
Despite rumours to the contrary, the Flu didn’t manage to finish me off last week, leaving me alive and well to welcome you back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. This is the first update of calendar year 2025, but calendar years mean very little to us here at…
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Quarter 3 Week 1 Update: Sick as a Christmas Pig!
Please excuse the coughing, I think I am literally dying with the flu. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity blog, where this week we are getting a start on quarter 3 of year 3 of the project! As with every other time, a new quarter brings new…
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Quarter 3 Week 13 Update: You did it. You Crazy Son of a Bitch you did it.
Hi there! Welcome back to the end of quarter 3 of the second year of Hammer the Backlog. If you are new around here, Hammer the Backlog is my attempt to get my 25+ years worth of collected (hoarded?) Warhammer minis painted, photographed and online. As someone who actually games with tabletop minis very infrequently,…
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Quarter 3 Week 12 Update: Change of Plans!
Hi, it’s me again! Welcome back for another week of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity blog in which I, Mick, attempt to paint my entire backlog of 25+ years of unpainted Warhammer miniatures before I forget how. As we come to the end of quarter 3 of the second…
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Quarter 3 Week 11 Update: I Can’t Count?
Well hello there! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog. This is a weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I’ve been sweating this week as I miscounted the number of weeks in a quarter way back at the start of this process and had to make some sort of decision, which I have been…
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Quarter 3 Week 10 Update: A Real Brute
Well hello there! Another week of Warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity from Hammer the Backlog. After a dip of a low couple of weeks, last week was a real high point. And this week I managed to maintain that positive vibe and made some decent progress. Nice. Let’s take a look at this week’s…
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Quarter 3 Week 9 Update: Death to the Corpse Emperor
You’ll excuse the slightly histrionic title this week, I hope, since we are doing some classic Black Legion Chaos Space Marines! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, my weekly blog focussed on Warhammer mini painting, Productivity measuring and accountability. I have nearly 30 years of unpainted Warhammer minis to get painted before ennui sets in…
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Quarter 3 Week 8 Update: Another Cup of Whine
Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Wahammer (mostly!) mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. Each year I set myself some overall targets, then break those targets down in quarters. I then break those quarterly targets down into weekly steps, which I record here on this public blog, both to keep myself honest and…
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Quarter 3 Week 7 Update: Backstreet’s Back
Hi there! This is Hammer the Backlog, the weekly warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. If this is your first time here, welcome! If this is not your first time, you are probably eager to get on with seeing the same things you see every week: a look at the productivity scorecard, followed by…
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