Tag: Pile of Shame
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Quarter 3, Week 5 Update: Faith and Psychic Abominations
Hello and welcome back to another week of Hammer the Backlog, the Warhammer painting and accountability blog. This week has been a challenging one, despite having some really fun models to paint. Before we get to my whinging, let’s take a look at this week’s scorecard. SCORECARD Another week fully in the green, but another…
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Quarter 3, Week 4 Update: Kravv’Cha’To and Unpaid Internships
Welcome back to the fourth week of the third quarter of the first year of Hammer the Backlog, the painting and accountability blog that is keeping track of my foolhardy quest to get all of my existing tabletop wargaming and boardgame miniatures painted without going mad. Every week we take a look at the score…
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Quarter 3, Week 3 Update: Long Hauler Gamma-3-Beta
Welcome back to the final Hammer the Backlog update for the calendar year 2022, where this week we leave the green green grass of retro Warhammer Fantasy behind for the time being and apply the Hammer the Backlog accountability and productivity methodology to the grim far future of Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress. Since Hammer the…
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Quarter 3, Week 2 Update: Enemy Sighted!
Welcome to the penultimate Hammer the Backlog update for 2022! Strap yourself in for a little dose of pre-Christmas Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blogging! Let’s start with a second to last look at the scorecard. SCORECARD Another sweep of green this week, without any major hold ups or delays. I managed to push…
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Quarter 3, Week 1 Update: We Fear the Enemy!
Hello and welcome back to Quarter 3 of Hammer the Backlog, the relentless Warhammer painting, accountability and productivity blog, where all of the targets are SMART, even if I’m dumb as a brick. A nice little throwback to Dark Omen there in the title, for the real deep cut nerds among us. As this is…
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Quarter 2, Week 13 Update: The Highest of Highs and the Mediumest of Lows
Welcome back to the final instalment of Hammer the Backlog Quarter 2, where this week we learned the real value of rocks and the absolute dread of a corrupted SD card. Please do read on for a rollercoaster of emotions. SCORECARD A little bit of red in the ledger this week, with only two models…
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Quarter 2, Week 12 Update: You’ve Got The Green Knight!
Hello Dev Patels and welcome back to week 12 of the second quarter of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly miniature painting and accountability blog, that this week is all about that sweet, sweet target-hitting! Let’s start things off, as they did in Arthurerian times, with a look at this week’s productivity scorecard. SCORECARD Not only…
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Quarter 2, Week 11 Update: It’s All Part of the Great Plan
Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly miniature painting and accountability blog, where this week we managed to knock off an absolutely huge target! Strap in for things to get pretty exciting. (If you like plastic models from 1996) Let’s not get too excited though, and start this week with the scorecard, just like…
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Quarter 2, Week 10 Update: Never Smile at a Crocodile
And never underestimate the work it takes to paint a Saurus Warrior, even if you are doing a Warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. It is the tightest we’ve ever been to missing a deadline this week, as constantly forgetting just how much detail there is on these little buggers has me writing this…
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Quarter 2, Week 9 Update: Farewell Skinks!
To quote the Slim Shadies of our youth, I’m back! And thank you for coming back to the twenty second week of my efforts to get my entire backlog of mini wargaming figures painted, in a systematic and accountable way. This was the second week where work was split by my holiday to Valencia, so…
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