Tag: Deathwatch
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Quarter 4 Week 11 Update: Middle Management

Hello and welcome back to a pretty big day for Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog? What makes it a big day, ask? Well, why don’t you read on and find out? SCORECARD Another week in the green this week, after a particularly steady quarter, if I do say…
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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 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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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…


