This first one took months. 3000 pieces and seemingly all browns. I knew it wasn't going to be much fun when I got it. I wouldn't have ever chosen this for myself, but a guy at work challenged me, so what can you do!? I think I started it in January. Once we'd slogged our way through enough of it, it was possible to do the Ravensburger trick of flipping half of it round 180 degrees and doing the top half on top of the bottom. So it took months for the first half, and just a few days for the second. We finished it over the Easter long weekend.
This is at the beginning of the weekend.
This shows how the pieces would line up flipped to the other side. I did use this technique a little bit in some of the sky, but even know exactly what shaped piece you need, there'd still be a couple of hundred pieces that all looked the same to choose from.
I did all the sails on the ship on the left in a morning.
Filling in the left
All the sky (well, the standard shaped pieces anyway)
Once all the dark stuff was done, all that was left was plain sky. So I cut it in half - see the line - to flip the top around onto the bottom.
Like so
Closer view
Even closer
And the next day it was done!
To have a fun break, I got out the cupcakes jigsaw. I've done this before so let David do most of it. I'm debating whether I should give it away or not - it's so fun.
Then we started another section of the Disney behemoth.
Annoyingly, the colour on the left matched the colour on the right so closely I kept putting in the wrong pieces.
Just look at this crap!
This is actually wrong!!
Did a lot of this by sitting one half atop the other.
Had a break in between and did a jigsaw of Alpensee. It didn't have the exact lake name on the box, but figured it out from Google Earth and found where the photo was taken from.
As a glutton for punishment, almost immediately after I finished that, I started The Little Mermaid section. In some ways it was even tougher than Peter Pan. There seemed to be unending blues. It also suffered from colour being so similar on either side you could get things wrong. I think the stars at the top were the worst for that on this one.
We started another one after that, but it got put downstairs when we had some people over, and hasn't been brought back since.
Finally we have one I picked up at the Green Shed the other week. This was on the stand to be distributed to the shelves, so had only just been dropped off. Grabbed it as I was queuing to pay. This was fun because you couldn't put it together until you'd completed each little section of nine pieces, and had to assemble them to allow a maze to be solved. Quite fun. I did it by myself, then showed David the finished puzzle, then pulled it apart for him to do.
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