Category: Updates
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Quarter 1 Week 13 Update: It’s Thanquol’s Lair, We All Just Live in it
Hello and welcome back to the final week of quarter one of year 3 (!) of Hammer the Backlog. A bittersweet week this week, with all of our panting targets for the quarter hit and a couple of great armies completed, but at the same time a rock killed this quarter, the stress of learning…
-
Quarter 1 Week 12 Update: Lizards United!
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog in which I, Mick, the backlog hammerer, attempt to motivate myself to paint my 30 years of collected table-top wargaming miniatures. You join me this week for week twelve of quarter 1. As this is the penultimate week, as…
-
Quarter 1 Week 11 Update: A Frog in my Throat
Is that a frog in your throat, or are you just happy to see me? That’s enough mixed metaphors, welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It’s week 11 of 13, can you believe it? The end of the quarter is rapidly approaching, with plenty still left to…
-
Quarter 1 Week 10 Update: No Need to be so Curt
Hello there! Welcome back to another week of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly miniature painting, productivity and accountability blog. I have only just noticed that it is week 10 of 13, so the end of the quarter is rapidly approaching, which means a lot left to be done and some rather big (in a small…
Hammer the Backlog 