Tag: miniatures
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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 3 Week 11 Update: Dawn of War
Hello! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer (mostly) mini painting, productivity and accountability blog in which I try to get 25 years of unpainted tabletop gaming minis painting to a stand just below (if you squint) box art quality. (Please do squint. It will help with your enjoyment of the blog and…
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Quarter 3 Week 9 Update: I Believe I Can Fly
Week nine already? Those weeks are really flying by! Welcome back to the home stretch of quarter 3 of year 3 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Despite the fact that the end of the quarter has snuck up on me, you join me this week deep into a…
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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 3 Week 7 Update: Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the Slog of War!
Welcome back to week 7 of quarter 3 of year 3 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. And this week has been very much about mini painting, productivity and accountability. After the excitement of getting my dream Brettonian unit painted over the last few weeks, and while I get…
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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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