I’m in Dortmund again, and I managed to finish the latest duck-puzzle. The white/grey areas were all right, but the wall was pretty difficult, especially the last 200 pieces. Having only the basic piece shape with no variety made it worse, but fortunately, the colour is not completely uniform, and you could also see the texture of the painting.
The Spirit and the Material of the Bottle by Kaj Stenvall, Tactic, 1000 pieces. Completed on May 12th, 2019.
I checked my other puzzles in the series, and of the ones I have, there’s only one more of the “only two tabs opposite” type, and that’s not as difficult as this one. There are a couple with a lot of white, though …
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.
World Champions 1995, 250 pieces. Completed on April 19th, 2019.
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.
From the left, Timo Jutila, Curre Lindström and Saku Koivu. Only Koivu is displaying the correct Finnish facial expression for celebrating a historic victory.
Today the Ice Hockey World Championship begins again. I prefer football, but I’ll try to catch a few games.Â
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.
Moscow, Clementoni, 500 pieces. Completed on May 8th, 2019.
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.
Travellers Joy: Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Ingham Day, 1000 pieces. Completed on May 8th, 2019.
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 🙂
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.
Yellow palm leaves.Butterfly
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 🙂
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.
Concentric Circles by Kandinsky, Puzzle Michèle Wilson, 30 pieces. Completed on May 3rd, 2019.
I have another puzzle with the same painting, a Ravensburger.
The box says “Handmade in France with 💛”Like with Victory puzzles, the fit is very loose.
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 🙂
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 😀
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