Tag: Custodes
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Quarter 2 Week 1 Update: Why Do You Have To Be So Gross, Michael?
Hello and Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I’ll leave you to guess if this week’s title is related to the minis I’m currently painting, or just something that my mother said to me because I was discussing bodily functions at the dinner table. Again. SCORECARD All green…
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Quarter 1 Week 12 Update: A Rest is as Good as a Rest
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, where this week, very few backlogs were hammered. Hammer the Backlog is the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog where I try to paint all of my minis before I do myself enough physical harm that I am no longer able to. Because I am middle…
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Quarter 1 Week 10 Update: Tricky Finish
Hello there, skinless ones. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You join me towards the end of quarter 1 of year 5, with a project already in the can with three weeks to go. What will I do with the three weeks I have left? Only one…
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Quarter 1 Week 9 Update: What’s Black and Black and Black All Over?
Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly productivity, mini painting and accountability blog. You’ll notice I moved the order of those phrases around this week, as I’ve been saying the same thing every week for four years and three months, and variety is sometimes needed to stop us from going mad. Anyway, this week…
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Quarter 1 Week 7 Update: Why Am I Like This?
Hello there. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I know you’ve only got one question on your mind. What could have possibly attracted 16-year-old Mick to the army which featured the busty goth dominatrixes in their latex rubberised battle underpants? Well, the only way to find out…
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Quarter 1 Week 6 Update: It All Rests on Her Shoulders
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You join me, Mick (he who hammers the backlog) at roughly speaking the mid point of quarter 1 of year five. It’s summer, I’m painting old metal models from the 90s, they are goths, could life be any better?…
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Quarter 1 Week 5 Update: Teenage Daydream
It’s Thursday, so welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We are still neck deep in an unseasonable heatwave, so what better way to celebrate that by going back and painting some models from the hot and wet 90s? SCORECARD All green on the scorecard this week with…
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Quarter 1 Week 4 Update: Four is the New Five
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I’m Mick, the one who hammers the backlog, and over the last few days I’ve been suffering my own hell of being a creature biologically designed for the cold having to deal with 30 degree heat every day. So…
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Quarter 1 Week 2 Update: Why the Long Feet?
Welcome back to the dark and mysterious city of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Am I still on a productivity and excitement high after the yearly review and planning sessions, or has the reality of restoring and repairing the models in the worst state in my collection come…
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