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Quarter 4 Week 10 Update: No, Wait. Maybe it is a Marathon
Welcome back, oh most beloved of readers, to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We are really deeeeep in the depths of year 3 now, with only about 3 weeks left to go and pretty much all of the painting targets accounted for. Join me for the penultimate week of…
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Quarter 4 Week 9 Update: It’s a Sprint not a Marathon
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog, where sometimes things go wrong. It’s been one of those weeks, gang. You know the ones. Despite taking a whole assed day off of work, things still got away from me a little bit. Look, it happens to the…
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Quarter 4 Week 8 Update: All’s Quiet on the Ugly Front
Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. After last week’s hectic week of social media events, model donations and over ambitious target setting, absolutely nothing interesting has happened this week. Now, I know regular readers are thinking “He’s setting us up. Getting us to let our guards down…
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Quarter 4 Week 7 Update: Hey You Guys!
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It has been a heck of a busy week here at Hammer the Backlog central, with loads of side projects on, and a slight bit of overambitiousness (is that a word? Google doesn’t think it’s a word) almost…
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Quarter 4 Week 6 Update: Scary Monsters (and Super Freaks)
This is Major Mick to Hammer the Backlog readers. Take your protein pills and put your helmets on to get ready for this week’s Hammer the Backlog update. Hammer the Backlog is a weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog where I attempt to paint my 30 year backlog of neglected minis before a…
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Quarter 4 Week 5 Update: Time Goes By, So Slowly (Except When it Doesn’t)
Hello and welcome to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You’ll excuse a slightly truncated blog this week as, unfortunately, time kind of got the better of me this week. I am typing this up much later than usual, at about 9pm on Thursday evening. Let’s take a look…
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Quarter 4 Week 4 Update: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
It’s Hammer the Backlog time! That’s right! High energy this week. High speed, low drag! Ok, I’ll take it down a notch. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I’m trying to get 30 years of hoarded tabletop minis painted to a standard that I’m happy with,…
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Quarter 4 Week 3 Update: Always Look on the Bright Side
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the painting, productivity and accountability blog. You join me at about the 25% mark of the last quarter of year 3, with one last big project (the genestealer cults side of Deathwatch Overkill) well and truly underway, and the enormous potential of year four just enticingly over…
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Quarter 4 Week 2 Update: Do These Genes Make My Butt Look Big?
Hello and welcome back to the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog formerly, and currently, known as Hammer the Backlog. My name is Mick, and like any man born in western europe from about 1970 onwards, I spent most of my teen years, and every year since, buying but not painting Warhammer minis. Three…
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Quarter 4 Week 1 Update: Listen All Y’all, it’s a Sabotage
Hello and welcome to the first week of quarter 4 of year 3 (can you believe it?) of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog where I try to use an operating system to turn 25 years of buyer’s remorse back into joy. Every year, at the start of the…
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