DR day 32/33/34/35 SECTION A FINISHED!!!!

So section A is FINISHED!!!! WOO-PEE!!!

I actually quite enjoyed doing this, although it was frustrating at times, I'm quite proud of the finished product =)

Now for pics =)

 First off I sorted the edge pieces out which took about a half hour, I then sorted the edge pieces into pieces with exact duplicates and pieces that were unique... I then did the leftmost edge which was entirely made up of the single pieces which took about another half hour

 A pic of the sorted doubles

 I then began the top edge, this was quite a bit harder and took me about an hour as a LOT of the pieces could be placed incorrectly... I FINALLY got it right though...

 I then spent about 2.5 hours sorting the remaining whites, and placing them onto trays... I had to get a little creative with storage as I didn't want my cat to mess with them, and with identical pieces stacked I couldn't just stack trays...

 The final product

 Left two sections

 right two sections

Okay, so one thing you might notice is a lack of pictures of the white process... This is because I did the normal white pieces in one sitting, and was so engrossed in the process that I didn't take pictures... In total the white pieces took about 4 hours total =) I made this chart to show which panel each white row corrisponded with...

Basically this is how it worked...

Top left is A(red), top right is B(black), bottom left is C(green), bottom right is D(pink)

The outermost left and top rows were edge pieces, the left edge was made up entirely of unique pieces, while the top repeated in sections A and B

the edge pieces however did have matching normal pieces... The pieces were identical, except they had an alternating pattern of knob, hole, knob, hole, etc, instead of the flat edge this pattern is repeated between each and every 1,000 pieces section...

honestly, the entire thing still makes my brain hurt... and I'm never going to be able to explain it properly... but I'll just say that there was never more than two identical white pieces in the entire white section because of how it was made... also, once I figured out the alternating knob pattern between each 1,000 piece section, it got a LOT easier =)

Anyways... final times...

Sorting 19.5 Hours

Pink: 8 Hours

Green: 3.5 Hours

Orange: 10 Hours

Blue: 5 Hours

Red: 10 Hours

Yellow: 4.5 Hours

Black: 3 Hours

Edge: 1.5 Hours

White: 4 Hours

Total: 69 Hours

So 69 Hours total... if the math is done, it will take me a total of 552 hours to finish this entire puzzle =)