Tag: hobby
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Quarter 2 Week 13 Update: This Way Up
Welcome back to another Hammer the Backlog update, and another end of quarter review! It’s been a long and rocky road to getting everything done this quarter, topped off with some hectic and ever so slightly stressful fun getting some bits and bobs painted. Let’s take a look at the scorecard, this week’s model, the…
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Quarter 2 Week 12 Update: Beautiful, on the Inside
Hello there fellow spacefarers. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly, mostly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You are probably just as shocked to hear this as I am, but we are well into December 2025, meaning Christmas break is rapidly approaching, and I have just two weeks left of Year 4,…
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Quarter 2 Week 10 Update: Assault on Black Reach? Completed it, Mate.
I’m freeeeeeee! After 10 weeks of painting up the Ork half of the Assault on Black Reach boxed set, from next week I’ll be free to do something else! Huzzah! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. The accountability part of that sentence has been doing a lot…
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Guest Blog: How Project Reaver Helped Harry Stop Worrying and Hammer the Backlog
Hi gang! As a special treat this week we have Hammer the Backlog’s second ever full guest post! Give him a bit of support here: https://www.instagram.com/harry_paintsminis/ Now! Over to the man himself! Take it from here Harry: I have been in and out of the hobby since 2008/2009. Initially drawn in through school friends and…
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Quarter 1 Week 4 Update: We are the Emperor’s Chosen
Hello and welcome back to week 4 of a very Dawn of War heavy quarter of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Let’s not be coy here, nostalgia is a big part of the attraction of Hammer the Backlog for a lot of you, but who in their right…
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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 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 2 Week 6 Update: Get Down Off There!
Well hello there fellow mages! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, my weekly accountability, productivity and warhammer painting blog. I promised myself a slightly easier week after the strain of getting 20 highly detailed High Elf infantry models painted over the last four weeks, and an easier week I did indeed have! Let’s take a…
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Quarter 4 Week 5 Update: They’re not short, they’re compact
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. Every Thursday I publish this blog, showing what models I’ve painted this week and keeping track of the overall health of the Hammer the Backlog project, aka, painting my nearly 30 years of collected grey plastic, metal and resin…
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