Corto Maltese is a classic Italian adventure comic where the eponymous hero has various adventures in the early 20th Century. The first album was published in the late 60s. I’ve never read Corto Maltese, but a fried of mine is a fan, and after doing the puzzle, I think I might try one. I enjoyed the puzzle a lot, and I can see that Hugo Pratt was a very talented illustrator. Also, wikipedia tells me that Boris Karloff was his great uncle!
Another installment in the Clementoni Space Collection. I really enjoyed this one!
This was very enjoyable. I like the way the cosy indoor scene is brought into the very traditional landscape. There are photographic puzzles of this exact view, without the indoor scene, of course. Hallstatt is a town in Austria, known for its salt mines.
I really loved this image of a child’s desk! The vinyl discs, the radio and the paper 3D-glasses puts this somewhere in the past, maybe the 80s (although the radio looks older). There’s a single puzzle piece below the baseball 😀 Unfortunately, there was no indication of an artist on the box. Quality was great, as usual with Clementoni. I think I’ll keep this one.
UPDATE: Hurrayforpuzzles told me that it’s an Aimee Stewart image. I guess I should have known.
A very traditional Alpine landscape. The mountain the background is the Matterhorn, on the border between Switzerland and Italy. As a puzzle, it was enjoyable until I got to the trees. Trees and bushes are perhaps my least favourite things to puzzle, but thankfully, Clementoni is a good brand. For the puzzle challenge, this was #27, a forest.
This was not as difficult as it looks. I did the people early, and then did the white / lighter areas first and the darkest bits last. There were three pieces missing, but I got this cheap at a recycling center, so that’s ok.
The monthly bonus challenge for March was Easter, and this was the closest I could find. The last supper was on Maundy Thursday, marking the start of Easter. (Strictly speaking the monthly challenges are expressed with images, and this time it was a hatching chicken. You are then free to interpret it as you wish, and some have Easter images, others have images with chickens that have nothing to do with Easter.)
Not sure why, but I thought this was going to be easy. Well, it sort of was, until I had done the grey, red and green suitcases, then it became a lot harder. Fortunately, it was a Clementoni of excellent quality, so it remained fun until the end despite being more difficult than I was expecting.
This is from the Cult Movies Puzzle Collection by Clementoni, with packaging that looks like a VHS cassette. The black parts were a bit tricky, and I sorted by shape at the end, but still fun, relatively easy puzzle.
For the puzzle challenge, this is #21, a vehicle that I’ve never travelled in / would like to travel in. It would be great to be able to visit the past 🙂
I recently spotted a puzzle, while watching another movie from the 80’s. This is from John Carpenter’s excellent The Thing (1982):
An MB puzzle, looks like 1600 pieces (CORRECTION: the puzzles in the series had 1500 pieces), and it says “super challenge” on the box, I think. I couldn’t get a clearer image, I’m afraid, the puzzle was not exactly the focus here 🙂
A rather conventional image, but it was still a nice puzzle. It’s been sitting in my do do pile for a good long time, probably because the colour palette is a bit muted. I bought the puzzle second hand, but it turned out to be not only complete, but in excellent condition.
For the puzzle challenge I’m doing, this will be #2, a jetty. Here are some newlyweds on the jetty heading for a boat called Next Step.
The second of the Star Trek Clementonis I got was thankfully complete, and a lot of fun to do. It was more difficult than I anticipated to know which piece belonged to which face, but still a fairly easy puzzle.
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