Tag: Quarter 1
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Quarter 1 Week 10 Update: Tricky Finish

Hello there, skinless ones. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You join me towards the end of quarter 1 of year 5, with a project already in the can with three weeks to go. What will I do with the three weeks I have left? Only one…
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Quarter 1 Week 8 Update: All the Single Ladies

Welcome back to the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog, henceforth (and previously) known as Hammer the Backlog. I am Mick, the one who hammers the backlog, and you join me this week on a week that is going to look pretty bad on paper, but which was actually super productive. SCORECARD Ok, first…
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Quarter 1 Week 6 Update: It All Rests on Her Shoulders

Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You join me, Mick (he who hammers the backlog) at roughly speaking the mid point of quarter 1 of year five. It’s summer, I’m painting old metal models from the 90s, they are goths, could life be any better?…
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Quarter 1 Week 5 Update: Teenage Daydream

It’s Thursday, so welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We are still neck deep in an unseasonable heatwave, so what better way to celebrate that by going back and painting some models from the hot and wet 90s? SCORECARD All green on the scorecard this week with…
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Quarter 1 Week 3 Update: Hammer the Frontlog

Welcome back to week 3 of year 5 (omg) of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It’s been another fabulously productive, start-of-the-year energy week of backlog hammering, so let’s jump straight into it. SCORECARD Another week fully in the green, with 5 little men painted, and all other commitments met.…
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Quarter 1 Week 1 Update: Nasty Peter

Hello again. It’s year bloomin’ 5! Can you imagine that? Five whole years of hammering the backlog. Well, four whole years done, and on to the fifth. Since new years are usually when the biggest number of new readers come on board, let me briefly introduce myself and the project. I am Mick, and I…
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Quarter 3 Week 7 Update: But is it Canon?

Oh my god, it’s Thursday evening already. That must mean it’s time for yet another Hammer the Backlog update. Get ready to get blasted with the weekly scorecard update, the project progress, this week’s models and the now infamous “any other issues” segment. Do you have the balls to read on for this week’s minipainting,…
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Quarter 1 Week 13 Update: There’s Only One Juan Diaz

Hi there, welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity, accountability and Juan Diaz fan blog. It’s the end of another quarter already, so join me for the thirteenth ever Hammer the Backlog end of quarter review. SCORECARD It feels about right to count this the classic 2002 Demon Prince as…
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Quarter 1 Week 12 Update: Why the Long Face?

It’s Thursday night, it’s Hammer the Backlog time. Welcome back to the penultimate update from Year 4, Quarter 1. With the Blood Ravens project well and truly in the bag, this week was an opportunity to dip into the esoterica of the pile of shame and pull out some weirdos to paint. Bits and Bobs.…
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Quarter 1 Week 10 Update: The Machine Spirit is Prepared

Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the suddenly highly topical mini painting, productivity and accountability blog in which I try to get a mountain of collected Warhammer projects painted before my hands fall off. From too much Warhammer. Lookit, when I decided to do a first born, 2008 style Blood Ravens army about…


