Tag: games-workshop
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Quarter 1 Week 2 Update: There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
Ssssshhhhh…. No talking in the library. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We are only two weeks into a brand new year and new project, and enthusiasm and interest is at an all time high on my end. But will that enthusiasm be enough to carry through…
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Year 3 Review and Year 4 Target Setting
Well hello there. Thanks for coming. Welcome to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog run by me, Mick. In this update we are going to look at the last 52 weeks of the year 2024/2025 and start planning for next year, 2025/2026. Please, take my hand and join me as…
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Quarter 4 Week 12 Update: Down Tools
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Last week I finished painting Deathwatch Overkill, the 2016 boardgame and the last painting target of the year. That left me two weeks still to go in the year, with no targets to hit. I originally scheduled a…
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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 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 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…
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