Tag: Quarter 3
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Quarter 3 Week 12 Update: Murder on the Reik (and the Back)

Hello there me hearties and welcome… No wait, I did the pirate thing last week didn’t I? Well, you write 200 blog updates in four years and try to be original! This is Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It’s the penultimate week of quarter 3 of year 4, and…
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Quarter 3 Week 11 Update: Something Fishy Going On

Hello there me hearties, and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly scurvy mini painting, accountability, plundering and productivity blog. I am Captain Mick of the good ship backlog, Manaan bless everyone who sails under her flag. SCORECARD Another week fully in the green, presumably not unlike the gangrenous toes of Von Klumpf’s Buccaneers,…
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Quarter 3 Week 10 Update: Porcupine

Hello there. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. When I say mini painting, it’s pretty much almost all Warhammer. You join me today as we approach the end of another quarter, with 3 full weeks left to go in quarter 3 of year 4. Year bloody 4,…
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Quarter 3 Week 9 Update: Checks and Lack of Balances

Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly productivity, accountability and painting overly elaborate patterns on tiny pants blog. I am Mick, the one who hammers the backlog. Why not join me for a weekly check in on the project progress, the models painted, and a discussion about whether it’s a good idea…
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Quarter 3 Week 8 Update: A Slight Diversion

We’re back at it again at Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. In a week filled with diversions and distractions, I am once again sick as a pig with a head cold. Join me for another week of making up excuses and painted models. Lets read on together to see…
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Quarter 3 Week 6 Update: How Do You Say Jason Statham in German?

Alright governor, roll your old mince pies over this week’s update for ‘ammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. After a tough but rewarding couple of weeks painting up some Reiksguard Knights, the now traditional winter flu left me reeling this week and desperately scrabbling for somewhat of an easy project.…
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Quarter 3 Week 5 Update: Down with Banners

Hello and welcome back to year 4 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Lookit, it’s mostly Warhammer. More than 90% I’d say. And in quarter 3 of year 5 it’s even more specific, a Warhammer Fantasy Battles army 100% based on the Dave Gallagher art from the seminal (in…
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Quarter 3 Week 4 Update: Knights in White Satin

Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. No early January slump around these parts, powering through the dark days and early nights with more early 2000s empire models. What about you? Painting or slumping? SCORECARD Another green sweep for 2026. Nothing in particular to report this week. I…
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Quarter 3 Week 3 Update: O Captain! My Captain!

New Year, new you? No! Nothing ever changes here at Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. Not for us Backlog Hammerers the ephemeral waxing and waning of motivation that January and New Year’s resolutions bring. Oh no. We have a full year of models more or less already planned out,…
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Quarter 3 Week 12 Update: It’s the End of the Quarter as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Welcome back, fellow Michaels Stipe, to Hammer the Backlog, the mostly warhammer mini painting accountability and productivity blog in which a lifelong collector of tabletop gaming miniatures finally forces himself to sit down and paint the damn things. What’s the frequency? Well, the blog is weekly, but the project itself is divided into years and…


