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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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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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