Category: Updates
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Quarter 2 Week 4 Update: Get to the Choppa!
Hello there fellow Predators. No, wait a minute, that doesn’t sound great. Hey you, over here! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog, where this week, the insistence on a very obvious pun for the title is going to result in me really mixing up my sci-fi metaphones.…
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Quarter 2 Week 3 Update: Orktober?
Hello there. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly painting, productivity and accountability blog. Join me for another week of checking the weekly scorecard, catching up on the quarterly goals and looking at some painted models. Oh, and it’s Orks. In October. For Orktober, Games Workshop’s most successful social media push. Did I plan…
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Quarter 2 Week 2 Update: The Inevitable Slow Down
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It’s been a pretty tough week for me in real life this week, so motivation hit an all time slump, just in time to sync up with the fact that I allowed myself two weeks to finish five models…
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Quarter 2 Week 1 Update: More Fun Than You Can Shake A Nob At
It’s the start of a new quarter, and a whole new set of targets and models for Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Buckle up and strap yourself in for our quarterly look at the three months to come, the weekly scorecard, the new targets and even, if we’re lucky,…
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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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