Tag: warhammer-40k
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Quarter 3 Week 2 Update: Gordon’s Alive!?
Despite rumours to the contrary, the Flu didn’t manage to finish me off last week, leaving me alive and well to welcome you back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. This is the first update of calendar year 2025, but calendar years mean very little to us here at…
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Quarter 2 Week 12 Update: The Ugly Phase
Hello and welcome to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly tabletop mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. In this quarter 2 of year 3 of the Hammer the Backlog project, I have been mostly painting the High Elves from the Island of Blood set, while dipping in and out of my 5th edition Bretonnians for an…
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Quarter 2 Week 5 Update: Phew
I was going to quote Scott of the Antarctic as the opener for this week’s blog, to represent the level of hardship and toll that painting these five models in a week had taken on me. But then I read the damned dairy and that felt a bit extreme to be honest. So instead, welcome…
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Quarter 2 Week 3 Update: Maximum Effort
Hi there! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog. Elves! Sorry, it’s been a tough week painting very intricate models and every waking moment and thought has been consumed by ELVES! Sorry again. I’m sure that will stop happening. Elves! Nope. Still there. In all and anyways, Hammer the Backlog is a weekly blog in which…
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Quarter 2 Week 1 Update: The Last Italian
Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Wargaming mini painting, accountability and productivity blog, where this week we are getting a start on quarter 2 of year 3 of the project. As with every other time, a new quarter brings new quarterly rocks. Hammer the Backlog is all about me using the methodology of…
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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 1 Update: We’re Just Normal Men
We’re just innocent men. Hello there! Welcome to year 3, quarter 1, week 1 of Hammer the Backlog, my weekly warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity blog in which I attempt to paint half a lifetime’s worth of “collected” tabletop wargaming minis. You join me this week at the start of a brand new year…
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Year 2 Review and Year 3 Target Setting
Well hello there. Thanks for coming. Welcome to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog run by me, Mick. In this update we are going to look at the last 52 weeks of the year 2023/2024 and start planning for next year, 2024/2025. Please, take my hand and join me as…
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Quarter 4 Week 11 Update: Vengeance is a Dish Best Served Cold
In the words of the bard, William Shakespear himself, welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog where I, Mick, use the official Hammer the Backlog to get my 30 years of unpainted Warhammer minis painted. I break this Herculean task down into yearly targets, which are then…
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Quarter 4 Week 10 Update: Limited Edition
Well if it isn’t the beloved reader, returned once again to the inner sanctum of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer Mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. This week, confess your sins of unproductivity and be cleansed at the altar of getting shit done. Take my hand as I guide you on a spiritual journey…
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