Tag: Bretonnia
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Quarter 2 Week 11 Update: Bricoles
Hello there! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting (not orks), productivity and accountability blog. This week, I’ve been painting pretty much anything but Orks. A classic end-of-quarter Bits and Bobs update for you this week. Or bricoles, as the French would say. Why is that relevant? Read on to find out.…
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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 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…
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Quarter 3 Week 2 Update: Gordon’s Alive!?
Despite rumours to the contrary, the Flu didn’t manage to finish me off last week, leaving me alive and well to welcome you back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. This is the first update of calendar year 2025, but calendar years mean very little to us here at…
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Quarter 3 Week 1 Update: Sick as a Christmas Pig!
Please excuse the coughing, I think I am literally dying with the flu. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity blog, where this week we are getting a start on quarter 3 of year 3 of the project! As with every other time, a new quarter brings new…
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Quarter 2 Week 12 Update: The Ugly Phase
Hello and welcome to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly tabletop mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. In this quarter 2 of year 3 of the Hammer the Backlog project, I have been mostly painting the High Elves from the Island of Blood set, while dipping in and out of my 5th edition Bretonnians for an…
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Guest Blog: How Gaius Marius Learned to Stop Worrying and just Hammer the Backlog
Hi gang! As a special treat this week we have Hammer the Backlog’s first ever full guest post! Absolute great egg Gauis Marius has been hammering his own backlog for nearly as long as I have. Give him a bit of support here! https://www.instagram.com/gaiusmariuspaints/ Now! Over to the man himself! Take it from here Gaius:…
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