Tag: warhammer-40k
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Quarter 3 Week 5 Update: Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe

Stop! Hammer (the Backlog) time! Don’t worry, you don’t have the unforgiven chasing you down across the length and breadth of the known galaxy just for reading Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. No, you have them chasing you down because of that other thing you did. You know the…
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Quarter 3 Week 3 Update: Why So Blue?

Hello there! Thank you very much for coming back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly table top mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. In fact, welcome to the most normal week of Hammer the Backlog we’ve had in ages! No deadlines looming, no big video projects, no Christmas break or flu! Just a normal week…
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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…


