Day 30 I started the black, finished the dolphin guy section pretty quickly, and then went to bed...
Day 31 I finished the last 3 sections, they went pretty quickly, only took around 3 hours total of puzzling to finish all 4 sections...
Now you may be wondering, I stated before that I wasn't sure if I had all of the black pieces that had color on them placed properly, since some of them were interchangable... I finished the black/white, and only 2 pieces were in the wrong places =) Horray for me!!
Now all that's left is the white... This shouldn't honestly be all that difficult, IF I take the time to match up the pieces, and use the repeating pattern... It means it'll take a MUCH longer sort time, but I believe the puzzling time will be a LOT less if I do this...
I'll of course do the edge pieces first, then match any pieces that go into the repeating pattern from the edge (as there will only be 3 matching pieces in each of these sections, instead of 4...)
Then I'll do the single row along the top and left side, which will be easy as I'll know what 2-3 sides of the puzzle piece look like, and I can use that to find where the matching pieces go...
The I'll only have two single rows left =) and that will work the same way... I think...
Sorting 15.5 Hours
Pink: 8 Hours
Green: 3.5 Hours
Orange: 10 Hours
Blue: 5 Hours
Red: 10 Hours
Yellow: 4.5 Hours
Black: 3 Hours
Total: 59.5 Hours
Anyways, so what's next? I'm not entirely sure, but here are a few options...
I could do a Historica Comica
The Official Site shows details of each panel... My favorite is the Big Bang panel...
I also bought The Time of Day, the 2,000 piece version by Educa, with the money I was refunded for that knock-off puzzle...
Or I have a dozen or so 1,000 piece puzzles I could do, but I'll post images of some of those later =)
Nice! can't wait to hear how easy / difficult the white border turns out to be. As for your next project - maybe Section 1 of Life or that really pretty Disney one you got that looks like stained glass?
ReplyDeletewell, I already sorted the white by shape, I still need to sort by identical pieces... but honestly, once I sort out all the identical pieces, I'm pretty sure ther'll be less white than there was solid red...
DeleteAs for what's next... I have a ton of 1,000 piece puzzles, so I'll probibly do one or two of those, and maybe a 2-3000 piece puzzle as well before starting anything...
I also grabbed a cheap copy of the 3,000 piece Guernica, which is a total monster, and totally in grey scale (i'll post pics of some of these later =D)
Okie dokie...I'm sure you'll come up with something fun. Are you going to do the 1,000 pieces or some of your others and then go back to Double Retrospect or start Life at that point?
ReplyDeleteeither life, wildlife, or if I have the moneys the 18,000 piece sistine chapel xD
ReplyDeleteI'll probibly start Life though...