More Berlin in cartoon form. I have virtually no memory of this puzzle.
Berlin, 2013-09-08
Month: May 2019
World Champions 1995, 2019-04-19
I bought this puzzle without a box, with a print-out of the image. I’m not even sure where that paper is any more, and I didn’t need it in assembling the puzzle. I’ve seen pictures of the box, but there was no manufacturer mentioned that I could see, as is often the case with this kind of promotional material.
The puzzle was of poor quality, and the second row from the top was especially troublesome (all that black), and pieces would often fit where they didn’t belong. I almost gave up but managed to get it together in the end.
Anyway, the image shows the Finnish ice hockey team that won their first-ever world championship for Finland in 1995. After the final people all over Finland poured out onto the streets to celebrate. It was the largest street party ever in Finland, and completely spontaneous.
Only two people in the image are actually smiling, and one of those is the Swedish head coach, Curre Lindström, forever the most popular Swede in Finland. I think the other one is captain Timo Jutila. Of the players, Saku Koivu is probably the one who is most well known internationally.
Today the Ice Hockey World Championship begins again. I prefer football, but I’ll try to catch a few games.
Moscow, 2019-05-08
This puzzle showing the Kremlin in Moscow was thoroughly enjoyable. Colourful buildings and excellent quality by Clementoni, although on some tabs the image layer has separated a bit. I completed it in one sitting.
Royal Mile, Edinburgh, 2019-05-08
An old puzzle, probably from the 60s. The brand is Ingham Day, presumably British. The quality was not stellar, pieces would fit where they don’t belong, and the cardboard was very thin. The pieces were stored in four bags, marked “left”, “centre”, “right” and “sky”, and this obviously made it a lot easier.
I did the left section first, and the last piece did fit in the vacant slot, but the colouring was wrong. Turned out the piece belonged in the right-hand section, but it was obviously placed here during the previous assembly.
I like doing these vintage street views occasionally, even though the quality is often quite bad.
I also managed to identify the church that the van belongs to: it’s Carrubbers Close Mission 🙂
Hannibal, 2011-10-05
Hannibal crossing the Alps, with elephants. Barrientos is not my favourite cartoon artist, but this was quite entertaining.
Paradise Sunset, In Progress (4)
I’ve abandoned the sky for now and moved onto the palms. The palm leaves are either dark yellow, neon yellow or green, depending on how the light hits them. I’m almost finished with the darker yellow ones (top left), and now I’m working on the neon yellow.
I’m enjoying this a lot, but I also need to do a lot of smaller puzzles in between – it feels good to finish a puzzle 🙂
Squares with Concentric Circles, 2019-05-03
Another wooden puzzle, this time very small. Only 30 pieces. Puzzle Michèle Wilson is a French brand of wooden puzzles. This is one of their smallest puzzles, the largest one is 5000 pieces (and it costs 870 euros!). Anyway, I thought I’d try a small one. I’ve seen photos of some of the large ones, and they look to be less interlocking than this.
I have another puzzle with the same painting, a Ravensburger.
I have to say, I’m not all that impressed with the wooden puzzles I’ve tried. Maybe for the best, considering what they cost 🙂
Separate Exit/Escape-page. Also, Elvis.
So, I managed to put together the dedicated page for the Exit-series puzzles. If you use Chrome or Firefox you can safely head over to the page because the spoilers are hidden with an HTML-tag called details, but that does NOT work in Microsoft browsers Explorer or Edge. Safari and Opera should be OK, but I’ve not tried them out.
Bonus: I just saw this nightmare for sale. The colourful photomosaics are bad enough, but this is the stuff of insanity. Not buying, obviously 😀
At Home in the Country, 2019-05-02
I was inspired by Stacey at My Jigsaw Journal to pull out my only vintage, wooden puzzle. I got it from my grandmother, we found it when I was helping her clear out a closet and I was, of course, very excited. I was probably about 14 at the time. It’s a 300-piece Victory puzzle, with no image on the box. Instead, there’s an explanation why it’s better not to have an image 🙂
It says about 300 pieces. I counted, and there should be 302, but one is missing.
It says 1949 in the bottom right-hand corner, but that would probably be the painting.
The Spirit and the Material of the Bottle, In Progress
I’m back in Helsinki, but before I left Dortmund I started on another duck puzzle.
I’m doing the more difficult ones first on purpose. Unfortunately, this has both large monochrome areas and just one type of pieces (basic shape with two tabs opposite). The puzzle was factory sealed (I’m not surprised), and there were quite a few pieces not properly separated. I usually don’t like that, but in this case, I’m not complaining…
There was also quite a lot of puzzle dust.
So much for the easy part: the top of the table cloth and the window in the upper right-hand corner.
At this point, I had to leave for the airport.
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