Arrow Puzzles 5200 01 Finke River - jigsaw
Make: Arrow Puzzles
Series: Australia
Serial: 5200 01
Title: Finke River
Pieces: 1008 (36 columns x 28 rows)
Size: 28 ½ x 19 ¼ ins. 72.4 x 48.9 cms.
Date: 1983.
Made in New Zealand.
A number of these scenery-only puzzles have accumulated in the stack and I decided it was time to tackle one of them.
With no man-made objects, aside from an empty road behind the two trees on the right, there are no major structures to focus on - everything is sky, water, foliage, or rock.
The initial sift through the pieces sorted them roughly into groups for sky and water, rock, trees and greenery, plus the edge pieces.
The edge pieces were put together first to create the frame, and then immediately split into the four edges, as this was a puzzle I was going to build from the top down.
Starting with the far horizon, I put together the sky and background hills. Following on from that was the near horizon having sifted out the near-black pieces and the orange coloured pieces from the rocks collection. Filling in most of the gaps left the upper third near complete.
Next I switched tactics and put together the water and reed bed in the lower left portion of the picture. This completed the lower quarter of the puzzle, with the notable exception of the lower right corner.
From the remaining pieces, it wasn't too hard to pick out those pieces with tree trunks and major branches plus the few pieces that show the road, possibly the only straight line in the picture.
At this point I decided to assemble the completed portions of the puzzle and see what I had. Essentially the top was complete, the left-most two thirds of the bottom third with a number of columns of pieces extending upwards towards the top.
And then there was the minor task of putting together 300+ pieces largely of foliage. When staring at the pieces, a particular colour or shade seems to stand out and all you can do is gather all of those pieces and try to fit them together, with or without assistance from the pieces already placed in the puzzle.
This was helped to some extent by the fact that, unlike most of the Arrow puzzles that have passed through my hands, this one didn't feel like it had been put together and taken apart numerous times. The pieces fit together well and when correctly located you could be confident that they were in the right place.
Still, seeing as around 100 of the pieces are little more than green or yellow-brown smudges there was an element of trying each piece in each slot until they seemed to locate correctly.
The most difficult Arrow puzzle I have put together, so far. Pleased that I only have (nominal) 1000 piece scenery-only puzzles, at the moment.
Arrow Puzzles 5200 01 Finke River - jigsaw
Make: Arrow Puzzles
Series: Australia
Serial: 5200 01
Title: Finke River
Pieces: 1008 (36 columns x 28 rows)
Size: 28 ½ x 19 ¼ ins. 72.4 x 48.9 cms.
Date: 1983.
Made in New Zealand.
A number of these scenery-only puzzles have accumulated in the stack and I decided it was time to tackle one of them.
With no man-made objects, aside from an empty road behind the two trees on the right, there are no major structures to focus on - everything is sky, water, foliage, or rock.
The initial sift through the pieces sorted them roughly into groups for sky and water, rock, trees and greenery, plus the edge pieces.
The edge pieces were put together first to create the frame, and then immediately split into the four edges, as this was a puzzle I was going to build from the top down.
Starting with the far horizon, I put together the sky and background hills. Following on from that was the near horizon having sifted out the near-black pieces and the orange coloured pieces from the rocks collection. Filling in most of the gaps left the upper third near complete.
Next I switched tactics and put together the water and reed bed in the lower left portion of the picture. This completed the lower quarter of the puzzle, with the notable exception of the lower right corner.
From the remaining pieces, it wasn't too hard to pick out those pieces with tree trunks and major branches plus the few pieces that show the road, possibly the only straight line in the picture.
At this point I decided to assemble the completed portions of the puzzle and see what I had. Essentially the top was complete, the left-most two thirds of the bottom third with a number of columns of pieces extending upwards towards the top.
And then there was the minor task of putting together 300+ pieces largely of foliage. When staring at the pieces, a particular colour or shade seems to stand out and all you can do is gather all of those pieces and try to fit them together, with or without assistance from the pieces already placed in the puzzle.
This was helped to some extent by the fact that, unlike most of the Arrow puzzles that have passed through my hands, this one didn't feel like it had been put together and taken apart numerous times. The pieces fit together well and when correctly located you could be confident that they were in the right place.
Still, seeing as around 100 of the pieces are little more than green or yellow-brown smudges there was an element of trying each piece in each slot until they seemed to locate correctly.
The most difficult Arrow puzzle I have put together, so far. Pleased that I only have (nominal) 1000 piece scenery-only puzzles, at the moment.