Tag: warhammer
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Quarter 1 Week 12 Update: Why the Long Face?

It’s Thursday night, it’s Hammer the Backlog time. Welcome back to the penultimate update from Year 4, Quarter 1. With the Blood Ravens project well and truly in the bag, this week was an opportunity to dip into the esoterica of the pile of shame and pull out some weirdos to paint. Bits and Bobs.…
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Quarter 1 Week 11 Update: Death has Arrived!

It’s Thursday, so that means it’s Hammer the Backlog time. Join me, why don’t you, as I wrap up the quarter 1 project a full two weeks early and spend the rest of the time trying to find something useful to do that won’t take me down an entirely new rabbithole. SCORECARD It’s green! Green…
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Guest Blog: How Project Reaver Helped Harry Stop Worrying and Hammer the Backlog

Hi gang! As a special treat this week we have Hammer the Backlog’s second ever full guest post! Give him a bit of support here: https://www.instagram.com/harry_paintsminis/ Now! Over to the man himself! Take it from here Harry: I have been in and out of the hobby since 2008/2009. Initially drawn in through school friends and…
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Quarter 1 Week 10 Update: The Machine Spirit is Prepared

Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the suddenly highly topical mini painting, productivity and accountability blog in which I try to get a mountain of collected Warhammer projects painted before my hands fall off. From too much Warhammer. Lookit, when I decided to do a first born, 2008 style Blood Ravens army about…
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Quarter 1 Week 9 Update: A Moment of Laxity Spawns a Lifetime of Heresy.

Lucky for me, then, that I have been on top of things this week! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I can’t believe it is already week 9 of the Blood Ravens project, time really does fly when you are having fun. Speaking of fun, let’s spend…
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Quarter 1 Week 6 Update: Even in Death

Hello there. Welcome back to week 6 of quarter 1 of year 4 of the Hammer the Backlog project. It’ll be a brief one this week, as I am away on my summer holidays in the south of France. Nice! SCORECARD Well, despite being away most of the week, I still managed to get some…
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Quarter 1 Week 4 Update: We are the Emperor’s Chosen

Hello and welcome back to week 4 of a very Dawn of War heavy quarter of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Let’s not be coy here, nostalgia is a big part of the attraction of Hammer the Backlog for a lot of you, but who in their right…
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Quarter 1 Week 3 Update: Commencing Infiltration…

You might not have spotted me due to my camouflage, but you have stumbled upon the latest weekly update to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly painting, accountability and productivity blog. Are we still on the high of new year, new project, new energy, or have 2006 moldlines started to drag us down? Read on! SCORECARD…
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Quarter 1 Week 2 Update: There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

Ssssshhhhh…. No talking in the library. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We are only two weeks into a brand new year and new project, and enthusiasm and interest is at an all time high on my end. But will that enthusiasm be enough to carry through…
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Quarter 1 Week 1 Update: Knowledge is Power, Hide it Well

Well, well, well. Wellity, wellity, wellity. If it isn’t another Quarter 1, Week 1 update for Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. The fourth such! Looks like this effort to get all of my 30 years of collected tabletop minis painted has more staying power than even I thought when…


