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Quarter 2 Week 8 Update: Mo’ Time, Same Problems Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, ya gitz. Hammer the Backlog is my weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Every week I paint some models, fill in an accountability scorecard…

Quarter 2 Week 8 Update: Mo’ Time, Same Problems hammerthebacklog.com/2025/11/06/q...

Quarter 2 Week 7 Update: Wake Me Up When Orktober Ends Green day? Green bloody month more like it! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer (mostly) mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. I am Mick, the one who Hammers the…

Quarter 2 Week 7 Update: Wake Me Up When Orktober Ends hammerthebacklog.com/2025/10/30/q...

Quarter 2 Week 6 Update: Dees Bois Need Sum Disuplin Hello there! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You join me at almost the midway point of quarter 2 of year for, and for a reflectio…

Quarter 2 Week 6 Update: Dees Bois Need Sum Disuplin hammerthebacklog.com/2025/10/23/q...

Quarter 2 Week 5 Update: Da Green Tide Hello ‘umies! Welcome back to ‘ammer da backlog, da weekly mini paintin’, akountabilty and produktivity blog. That’s enough of that, if I do say so myself! As the nights are getting longer and dark…

Quarter 2 Week 5 Update: Da Green Tide hammerthebacklog.com/2025/10/16/q...

Quarter 2 Week 4 Update: Get to the Choppa! Hello there fellow Predators. No, wait a minute, that doesn’t sound great. Hey you, over here! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog, wh…

Quarter 2 Week 4 Update: Get to the Choppa! hammerthebacklog.com/2025/10/09/q...

Quarter 2 Week 3 Update: Orktober? Hello there. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly painting, productivity and accountability blog. Join me for another week of checking the weekly scorecard, catching up on the quarterly g…

Quarter 2 Week 3 Update: Orktober? hammerthebacklog.com/2025/10/02/q...

Quarter 2 Week 2 Update: The Inevitable Slow Down Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It’s been a pretty tough week for me in real life this week, so motivation hit an all t…

Quarter 2 Week 2 Update: The Inevitable Slow Down hammerthebacklog.com/2025/09/25/q...

Quarter 2 Week 1 Update: More Fun Than You Can Shake A Nob At It’s the start of a new quarter, and a whole new set of targets and models for Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Buckle up and strap yourself in fo…

Quarter 2 Week 1 Update: More Fun Than You Can Shake A Nob At hammerthebacklog.com/2025/09/18/q...

Quarter 1 Week 13 Update: There’s Only One Juan Diaz Hi there, welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity, accountability and Juan Diaz fan blog. It’s the end of another quarter already, so join me for the th…

Quarter 1 Week 13 Update: There’s Only One Juan Diaz hammerthebacklog.com/2025/09/11/q...

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 opportuni…

Quarter 1 Week 12 Update: Why the Long Face? hammerthebacklog.com/2025/09/04/q...

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 …

Quarter 1 Week 11 Update: Death has Arrived! hammerthebacklog.com/2025/08/28/q...

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: Now! Over to the man himself! Take it from here Harry: I have been in…

Guest Blog: How Project Reaver Helped Harry Stop Worrying and Hammer the Backlog hammerthebacklog.com/2025/08/21/g...

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 painte…

Quarter 1 Week 10 Update: The Machine Spirit is Prepared hammerthebacklog.com/2025/08/21/q...

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 we…

Quarter 1 Week 9 Update: A Moment of Laxity Spawns a Lifetime of Heresy. hammerthebacklog.com/2025/08/14/q...

Quarter 1 Week 8 Update: The Emperor’s Finest Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We’re back on solid ground after last week’s disruption, so thank you very much for com…

Quarter 1 Week 8 Update: The Emperor's Finest hammerthebacklog.com/2025/08/07/q...

Quarter 1 Week 7 Update: Marine Squad Deployed! Hi there. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We’ve had a death in the family this week, so this is going to be a relatively short up…

Quarter 1 Week 7 Update: Marine Squad Deployed! hammerthebacklog.com/2025/07/31/q...

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, nostalgi…

Quarter 1 Week 4 Update: We are the Emperor's Chosen hammerthebacklog.com/2025/07/10/q...

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 stil…

Quarter 1 Week 3 Update: Commencing Infiltration… hammerthebacklog.com/2025/07/03/q...

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 proje…

Quarter 1 Week 2 Update: There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt. hammerthebacklog.com/2025/06/26/q...

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! Lo…

Quarter 1 Week 1 Update: Knowledge is Power, Hide it Well hammerthebacklog.com/2025/06/19/q...

Year 3 Review and Year 4 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 5…

Year 3 Review and Year 4 Target Setting hammerthebacklog.com/2025/06/12/y...

Quarter 4 Week 12 Update: Down Tools Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Last week I finished painting Deathwatch Overkill, the 2016 boardgame and the…

Quarter 4 Week 12 Update: Down Tools hammerthebacklog.com/2025/06/05/q...

Quarter 4 Week 11 Update: Middle Management Hello and welcome back to a pretty big day for Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog? What makes it a big day, ask? Well, why don’t you read o…

Quarter 4 Week 11 Update: Middle Management hammerthebacklog.com/2025/05/29/q...

Quarter 4 Week 10 Update: No, Wait. Maybe it is a Marathon Welcome back, oh most beloved of readers, to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. We are really deeeeep in the depths of year 3 now, with only about 3…

Quarter 4 Week 10 Update: No, Wait. Maybe it is a Marathon hammerthebacklog.com/2025/05/22/q...

Quarter 4 Week 9 Update: It’s a Sprint not a Marathon Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog, where sometimes things go wrong. It’s been one of those weeks, gang. You know the ones.…

Quarter 4 Week 9 Update: It’s a Sprint not a Marathon hammerthebacklog.com/2025/05/15/q...

Quarter 4 Week 8 Update: All’s Quiet on the Ugly Front Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. After last week’s hectic week of social media events, model donations and over ambitious target s…

Quarter 4 Week 8 Update: All’s Quiet on the Ugly Front hammerthebacklog.com/2025/05/08/q...

Quarter 4 Week 7 Update: Hey You Guys! Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. It has been a heck of a busy week here at Hammer the Backlog central, with lo…

Quarter 4 Week 7 Update: Hey You Guys! hammerthebacklog.com/2025/05/01/q...

Quarter 4 Week 6 Update: Scary Monsters (and Super Freaks) This is Major Mick to Hammer the Backlog readers. Take your protein pills and put your helmets on to get ready for this week’s Hammer the Backlog update. Hammer the Backlog is a weekly Warhammer mi…

Quarter 4 Week 6 Update: Scary Monsters (and Super Freaks) hammerthebacklog.com/2025/04/24/q...

Quarter 4 Week 5 Update: Time Goes By, So Slowly (Except When it Doesn’t) Hello and welcome to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. You’ll excuse a slightly truncated blog this week as, unfortunately, time kind of …

Quarter 4 Week 5 Update: Time Goes By, So Slowly (Except When it Doesn’t) hammerthebacklog.com/2025/04/17/q...

Quarter 4 Week 4 Update: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back It’s Hammer the Backlog time! That’s right! High energy this week. High speed, low drag! Ok, I’ll take it down a notch. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly warhammer mini painting, produ…

Quarter 4 Week 4 Update: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back hammerthebacklog.com/2025/04/10/q...