Tag: Quarter 1
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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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Quarter 1 Week 1 Update: Knowledge is Power, Hide it Well

Well, well, well. Wellity, wellity, wellity. If it isn’t another Quarter 1, Week 1 update for Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. The fourth such! Looks like this effort to get all of my 30 years of collected tabletop minis painted has more staying power than even I thought when…
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Quarter 1 Week 13 Update: It’s Thanquol’s Lair, We All Just Live in it

Hello and welcome back to the final week of quarter one of year 3 (!) of Hammer the Backlog. A bittersweet week this week, with all of our panting targets for the quarter hit and a couple of great armies completed, but at the same time a rock killed this quarter, the stress of learning…
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Quarter 1 Week 12 Update: Lizards United!

Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog in which I, Mick, the backlog hammerer, attempt to motivate myself to paint my 30 years of collected table-top wargaming miniatures. You join me this week for week twelve of quarter 1. As this is the penultimate week, as…
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Quarter 1 Week 11 Update: A Frog in my Throat

Is that a frog in your throat, or are you just happy to see me? That’s enough mixed metaphors, welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It’s week 11 of 13, can you believe it? The end of the quarter is rapidly approaching, with plenty still left to…
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Quarter 1 Week 10 Update: No Need to be so Curt

Hello there! Welcome back to another week of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly miniature painting, productivity and accountability blog. I have only just noticed that it is week 10 of 13, so the end of the quarter is rapidly approaching, which means a lot left to be done and some rather big (in a small…
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Quarter 1 Week 9 Update: Heavy Metal Lizards

Sibilant greetings to you, fellow cold bloods. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog where you get to watch me paint my huge hoard of retro and modern tabletop miniatures, all the while stressing myself out about hitting self-imposed deadlines and targets! But sure look, it seems to…
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Quarter 1 Week 8 Update: Those Magnificent Men…

Ciao a tutti! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. After a few weeks of disruption, things finally feel back on track at Hammer the Backlog central. If you are new here, having been lured in by pictures of retro Wargahammer models, then let me explain. In…
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Quarter 1 Week 7 Update: … And Their Flying Machines

Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog. My seemingly never ending attempt to get my nearly 30-year backlog of unpainted warhammer miniatures painted to a standard I am happy with. After my two and a half week honeymoon in Korea proved the biggest disruption to the Hammer the Backlog project since it started, this week I…
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Quarter 1 Week 5 Update: 활동 중 실종

Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity blog in which I, Mick, attempt to paint 30 years of accumulated tabletop gaming models by adhering strictly to a project management “operating system”. Don’t worry if you couldn’t read this week’s title correctly, that’s what it’s supposed to look like,…


