Tag: Year 5
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Quarter 2 Week 3 Update: Seven, Is the Magic Number
Welcome back, puss-filled rotbags, to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We’re already about a quarter of the way into quarter 2 of year five, and I’ve just put the finishing touches on the first full unit of models from the Warhammer Conquest collection I collected (collected is a euphemism…
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Quarter 2 Week 2 Update: I’m Disgusted With Myself
Hello there, fellow puss filled grubs, and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly disease spreading, productivity and accountability blog. And mini painting! This week has been a classic week 2 week. Things are moving along, everything from this quarter is still new and fresh, and I have lots to talk about, if relatively…
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Quarter 2 Week 1 Update: Why Do You Have To Be So Gross, Michael?
Hello and Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I’ll leave you to guess if this week’s title is related to the minis I’m currently painting, or just something that my mother said to me because I was discussing bodily functions at the dinner table. Again. SCORECARD All green…
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Quarter 1 Week 13 Update: I Wonder What’s Next?
Hello and welcome to the final week of quarter 1 of year 5 of the Hammer the Backlog project, my ongoing mission to refind the joy (and paint up, I suppose) my 30 years of hoarded tabletop gaming minis. A real week of two parts, with the end of quarter well and truly in the…
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Quarter 1 Week 11 Update: No One Expects the Elven Inquisition
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Last week, at only 10 weeks into quarter 1 of year 5, I finished all of my existing Dark Eldar collection, leaving me with a luxurious 3 weeks left in the quarter with no pressing models to paint. When…
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Quarter 1 Week 10 Update: Tricky Finish
Hello there, skinless ones. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You join me towards the end of quarter 1 of year 5, with a project already in the can with three weeks to go. What will I do with the three weeks I have left? Only one…
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Quarter 1 Week 8 Update: All the Single Ladies
Welcome back to the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog, henceforth (and previously) known as Hammer the Backlog. I am Mick, the one who hammers the backlog, and you join me this week on a week that is going to look pretty bad on paper, but which was actually super productive. SCORECARD Ok, first…
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Quarter 1 Week 6 Update: It All Rests on Her Shoulders
Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You join me, Mick (he who hammers the backlog) at roughly speaking the mid point of quarter 1 of year five. It’s summer, I’m painting old metal models from the 90s, they are goths, could life be any better?…
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Quarter 1 Week 5 Update: Teenage Daydream
It’s Thursday, so welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We are still neck deep in an unseasonable heatwave, so what better way to celebrate that by going back and painting some models from the hot and wet 90s? SCORECARD All green on the scorecard this week with…
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Quarter 1 Week 3 Update: Hammer the Frontlog
Welcome back to week 3 of year 5 (omg) of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It’s been another fabulously productive, start-of-the-year energy week of backlog hammering, so let’s jump straight into it. SCORECARD Another week fully in the green, with 5 little men painted, and all other commitments met.…
