Tag: Quarter 2
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Quarter 2 Week 5 Update: Does this Proboscis Make Me Look Bloated?

Please ignore that smell. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the filthy weely mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. With the Plague Marines from Dark Imperium finished last week, it was a slight change of gears this week to picking out the next project. Did I go ahead wand start the 20 Pox Walkers like…
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Quarter 2 Week 4 Update: Progress or Decay

Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We’ve hit one of the bigger milestones in the quarter 2 goals this week, as well as accidentally hitting another. Join me for a weekly dive into scorecards, targets and painted models. SCORECARD Ignore the actual red in the…
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Quarter 2 Week 3 Update: Seven, Is the Magic Number

Welcome back, puss-filled rotbags, to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We’re already about a quarter of the way into quarter 2 of year five, and I’ve just put the finishing touches on the first full unit of models from the Warhammer Conquest collection I collected (collected is a euphemism…
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Quarter 2 Week 2 Update: I’m Disgusted With Myself

Hello there, fellow puss filled grubs, and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly disease spreading, productivity and accountability blog. And mini painting! This week has been a classic week 2 week. Things are moving along, everything from this quarter is still new and fresh, and I have lots to talk about, if relatively…
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Quarter 2 Week 1 Update: Why Do You Have To Be So Gross, Michael?

Hello and Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I’ll leave you to guess if this week’s title is related to the minis I’m currently painting, or just something that my mother said to me because I was discussing bodily functions at the dinner table. Again. SCORECARD All green…
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Quarter 3 Week 2 Update: The Spirit of Mondstille

Merry Christmas one and all! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog that publishes every Thursday evening, come hell or high water. Or Christmas. Lookit, the fact that it’s the biggest cultural celebration of the year, and that I just finished up work yesterday, is no excuse for…
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Quarter 2 Week 13 Update: This Way Up

Welcome back to another Hammer the Backlog update, and another end of quarter review! It’s been a long and rocky road to getting everything done this quarter, topped off with some hectic and ever so slightly stressful fun getting some bits and bobs painted. Let’s take a look at the scorecard, this week’s model, the…
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Quarter 2 Week 12 Update: Beautiful, on the Inside

Hello there fellow spacefarers. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly, mostly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You are probably just as shocked to hear this as I am, but we are well into December 2025, meaning Christmas break is rapidly approaching, and I have just two weeks left of Year 4,…
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Quarter 2 Week 10 Update: Assault on Black Reach? Completed it, Mate.

I’m freeeeeeee! After 10 weeks of painting up the Ork half of the Assault on Black Reach boxed set, from next week I’ll be free to do something else! Huzzah! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. The accountability part of that sentence has been doing a lot…
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Quarter 2 Week 9 Update: Rhythm is Going to Get You

Hi there! It’s Hammer the Backlog time! Another Thursday evening, another 5 points worth of models finished. Hammer the Backlog is the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Some weeks, I don’t have that much to say. But even in those weeks, there will be a blog. This is one of those weeks! SCORECARD…


