This is part of the Master Pieces Inside Out-series, where we are shown the inside and outside of various buildings, in this case a brewery. This was great fun!
I like Master Pieces puzzles, they have great images, but unfortunately, they aren’t often available in Europe, or if they are, they can be quite expensive. Not this time, though, I got this during a sale 🙂
This Sunsout puzzle was great fun, and also good quality. The last Sunsout puzzle I did seemed like it had been cut with very dull blades, but this was great! I love the image, and especially the black and yellow car, of course 🙂
This puzzle has seen better days, it was quite worn, and there were two pieces missing, as well as an extra piece. It was actually quite difficult. Also, I think it looks more like these two are meeting for the first time, I don’t think they’re a couple yet 🙂
So much can change in a week! A week ago, I was complaining about not being able to see games live in the stadium, but for the the second home game of the season some tickets were made available for members who don’t have a season ticket, and I managed to get one! The game on Saturday was against Freiburg, the same opponent as the last time I was in the stadium in February. The game in February was a tense 1-0 win, but on Saturday there were proper offensive fireworks and a resounding 4-0! It felt so good to be back. Anyway, here’s another football related puzzle 🙂
There is so much going on here that I relied on the box image a little more than I prefer. A lot of funny details, as usual with a van Haasteren. The obligatory shark and some dentures on the run:
I can’t resist putting in a photo from Saturday. This is from right after the first goal:
This abstract painting from 1938 made for a great puzzle. I always like abstract images with fields in different colours. Before I started, I thought there might be too much grey in this image, but eventually, there weren’t that many pieces that were all grey. Great puzzle, great Grafika quality, this time with the glossy finish (some Grafika puzzles have a matte finish, but I find the glossy version is more common).
So, I’m in Dortmund, and the season has started, but I’m unlikely to get to see a game in the stadium this year. Some spectatores are allowed, but it’s only about 1/8 of the capacity, and all of those tickets go to season ticket holders. (You may ask why I don’t have a season ticket, and that’s because there’s a very long queue, which I am on, but I’m unlikely to ever get one. Only a handful become available each year, and the queue is very long, so long, in fact, that they are no longer accepting new applicants.)
At least the fan shop has a new puzzle to cheer me up! It shows the stadium with its unmistakeable 8 yellow pylons. For sponsoring reasons, the stadium if officially known as Signal Iduna Park, but its real name is Westfalenstadion. In the foreground there’s the old stadium, where the second team plays. I actually did manage to get a ticket for one of their games (an unfortunate 1-1 agains Rot-Weiss Essen, with the equalizer conceded in injury time).
The puzzle was of great quality (not always the case with this type of merch), it reminded me of Heye, but there was no indication on the box where or by whom it was produced. I don’t usually go for images that are mostly black and white, but I loved this!
Possibly one of the the greatest puzzles I’ve ever done. A 2000-piece Cobble Hill collage of posters promoting (non-existent) space travel. I actually have the Kepler 16b-poster as a separate, 500-piece puzzle, but that’s by the New York Puzzle Company, this is by Cobble Hill.
By the way, the box says “Random Cut”, but as you can see, the cut is actually quite tame, and looks almost like a ribbon cut to me.
The quality was overall great, but there was a bit of a “fault line” in the middle of the puzzle, and that doesn’t work too well with text (or lines). It really didn’t look good:
I still think it’s one of the best and most entertaining puzzles I’ve ever done. Stylish posters and lots of text 🙂
Great 70s collage from a British perspective by Gibsons.
This puzzle was obviously great fun from start to finish!
Wonderful new Ravensburger 2000-piece image of a witch’s cupboard. I loved it! Not the easiest 2000-piece puzzle I’ve ever done, but certainly one of the most entertaining. Quality was also great, and there was none of the lift that I’ve seen with some newer Ravensburgers.
This was my second puzzle of the brand Art Puzzle, and I have to say the quality wasn’t as good as with the first. The fit was somehow a bit off, the pieces just didn’t fit together as well as they should. I was never in any doubt whether a piece belonged or not, the precision of the cut was still good.
I haven’t done many images like this, I guess the genre would be romantic / fantasy, but I really liked this image, and it turned out to be a very enjoyable puzzle.
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