Tag: Quarter 1
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Quarter 1 Week 4 Update: I Once Was Lost

Welcome back, dear friends, to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly warhammer mini figure painting, accountability and productivity blog that uses business scaling methods to ensure that I get my 25 year backlog of resin, plastic, pewter and lead tiny men painted up to a standard I’m happy with before the inevitable heat death of the…
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Quarter 1 Week 1 Update: New Year, New You!

Welcome to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer (mostly) mini painting, accountability and productivity blog in which I use a small business operating system to “hack” my fallible human motivations and get a backlog of 25 years of collected minis painted to a decent display standard. After a break from painting for the yearly review…
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Week 13 Update: Can’t See the Wood Elves for the Trees

Hello and welcome back to the final update for quarter one of Hammer the Backlog, the Warhammer miniature painting, productivity and accountability blog. This week was an odd one, more concerned with setting up for the next quarter than anything else, although I did still get some models painted! Let’s take a look together, dear…
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Week 12 Update: Bits and Bobs

Hello there! Thanks for coming back to week 12 of Hammer the Backlog, the Warhammer painting, accountability and productivity blog that has jokes that only I find funny. It has been a relatively laid back week of backlog hammering this week, what with the two main quarterly rocks in the bag! Not that I haven’t…
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Week 11 Update: The First Great Quest Complete

Hello dear reader, welcome back to week 11 of Hammer the Backlog, the Warhammer painting and productivity blog to end all others. You will excuse the hyperbole, I hope, as this week is pretty exciting and spirits are indeed high! Let us start, as per every other week, with a look at the productivity and…
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Week 10 Update: La Peste!

Welcome back to week 10 of Hammer the Backlog, where this week we have been struck down by Nurgle’s latest vile concoction. Or covid-19, as it is more commonly known. Did covid-19 slow down the project, or did having to stay at home result in more hobby time? Yes! Please read on to unravel the…
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Week 9 Update: Fearful Symmetry

Welcome back to week 9 of Hammer the Backlog, the hobby blog that makes progress every week by feeling like a job. But a really fun job! I’m going to let you in on a little behind the curtains secret; this week I am actually typing this on Monday evening, having already got all of…
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Week 8 Update: A Banner Year

Hello and welcome back to week 8 of the first quarter of Hammer the Backlog, where we get all nostalgic about old models and then ruin that by talking about productivity and processes. Speaking of processes, let’s take a look at this week’s scorecard! SCORECARD Another week of pure green! I’m starting to feel a…
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Week 7 Update: A Knight’s Oath

Welcome back to week 7 of the first quarter of Hammer the Backlog, where I use targets and accountability to get my massive pile of unpainted tabletop gaming figures painted, come hell or high water! Although the numbers won’t show it, this has been the trickiest week of Hammer the Backlog so far! SCORECARD Let’s…
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Week 6 Update: It Don’t Matter if You’re Black or White

Hello and welcome back to week six of the first quarter of Hammer the Backlog, my effort to get all of my accumulated models painted and ready to be put on a shelf, never to be used in actual wargames! We have passed the halfway point of the first quarter and things are well on…


