Category: Updates
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Quarter 3 Week 12 Update: It’s the End of the Quarter as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Welcome back, fellow Michaels Stipe, to Hammer the Backlog, the mostly warhammer mini painting accountability and productivity blog in which a lifelong collector of tabletop gaming miniatures finally forces himself to sit down and paint the damn things. What’s the frequency? Well, the blog is weekly, but the project itself is divided into years and…
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Quarter 3 Week 11 Update: Dawn of War

Hello! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer (mostly) mini painting, productivity and accountability blog in which I try to get 25 years of unpainted tabletop gaming minis painting to a stand just below (if you squint) box art quality. (Please do squint. It will help with your enjoyment of the blog and…
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Quarter 3 Week 10 Update: Sally Mander

Welcome back to what really is the home stretch of quarter 3 of year 3 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. It was a tough week of real life this week, but I managed to more or less hit the targets on the mini painting side of things, assuming…
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Quarter 3 Week 9 Update: I Believe I Can Fly

Week nine already? Those weeks are really flying by! Welcome back to the home stretch of quarter 3 of year 3 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Despite the fact that the end of the quarter has snuck up on me, you join me this week deep into a…
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Quarter 3 Week 8 Update: What’s Black and Blue and Red all over?

Hello there! Has my riddle enticed you into reading this, the latest update from Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog? If so, welcome! If not, well, then you’re not reading this, are you, and I’ve backed myself into a meta-narrative corner. How do I get out of this? By taking…
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Quarter 3 Week 7 Update: Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the Slog of War!

Welcome back to week 7 of quarter 3 of year 3 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. And this week has been very much about mini painting, productivity and accountability. After the excitement of getting my dream Brettonian unit painted over the last few weeks, and while I get…
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Quarter 3 Week 6 Update: Force Integrated Strength Team

Or FIST for short. Imperial Fist, that is. Or are my fully painted unit of Bretonnian Men-at-Arms, very kindly sent to me by the gang over at Merlin’s Miniatures, the real force integrated strength team? Only one way to find out, by reading the rest of this week’s update here at Hammer the Backlog, the…
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Quarter 3 Week 5 Update: Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe

Stop! Hammer (the Backlog) time! Don’t worry, you don’t have the unforgiven chasing you down across the length and breadth of the known galaxy just for reading Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. No, you have them chasing you down because of that other thing you did. You know the…
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Quarter 3 Week 4 Update: There are No Wolves on Fenris

Hi there. I hope you’ll excuse me using one of the greatest lines of world and lore building mystery ever from the annals of 40k for this week’s title. But if that doesn’t bring the readers in, what will? Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. I’m…
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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…


