Tag: Quarter 3
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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…
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Quarter 3 Week 11 Update: Dawn of War
Hello! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer (mostly) mini painting, productivity and accountability blog in which I try to get 25 years of unpainted tabletop gaming minis painting to a stand just below (if you squint) box art quality. (Please do squint. It will help with your enjoyment of the blog and…
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Quarter 3 Week 10 Update: Sally Mander
Welcome back to what really is the home stretch of quarter 3 of year 3 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. It was a tough week of real life this week, but I managed to more or less hit the targets on the mini painting side of things, assuming…
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Quarter 3 Week 9 Update: I Believe I Can Fly
Week nine already? Those weeks are really flying by! Welcome back to the home stretch of quarter 3 of year 3 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Despite the fact that the end of the quarter has snuck up on me, you join me this week deep into a…
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