Next project
The time has finally come to tackle one of these 5000 piece wooden puzzles by Michèle Wilson. I have been wanting to start a BIG project like this for the past few years and have always found an excuse not to. This should keep me plenty busy for the rest of the winter.
I believe it's one of the easier 5000 PMWs out there: Café Le Soir by Vincent Van Gogh. I won't be referring to the box image, but the painting is familiar and the image will be difficult to completely avoid while hunting for puzzles online.
I counted 5,056 pieces.
I prepared a piece of 1/2" plywood for the project, because it would be extremely difficult to move a push-fit puzzle of this size off the table. I can also remove the board if I need to use my table for other purposes or need to take a break.
At 90 x 120 cm., it's about the size of a standard 3000 piece cardboard puzzle. At first glance the pieces look very pixellated - I hope it will look okay in the context of the full image.
I'll post progress updates every 10 hours. I expect this to be about a 10/10 in the difficulty scale, which would put the completion time at around 140 hours. My estimate is that it will take somewhere between 125 - 150. At least there are no large areas of black like in the still-life I assembled, so it might go a bit faster. I can't wait to find out!
Next project
The time has finally come to tackle one of these 5000 piece wooden puzzles by Michèle Wilson. I have been wanting to start a BIG project like this for the past few years and have always found an excuse not to. This should keep me plenty busy for the rest of the winter.
I believe it's one of the easier 5000 PMWs out there: Café Le Soir by Vincent Van Gogh. I won't be referring to the box image, but the painting is familiar and the image will be difficult to completely avoid while hunting for puzzles online.
I counted 5,056 pieces.
I prepared a piece of 1/2" plywood for the project, because it would be extremely difficult to move a push-fit puzzle of this size off the table. I can also remove the board if I need to use my table for other purposes or need to take a break.
At 90 x 120 cm., it's about the size of a standard 3000 piece cardboard puzzle. At first glance the pieces look very pixellated - I hope it will look okay in the context of the full image.
I'll post progress updates every 10 hours. I expect this to be about a 10/10 in the difficulty scale, which would put the completion time at around 140 hours. My estimate is that it will take somewhere between 125 - 150. At least there are no large areas of black like in the still-life I assembled, so it might go a bit faster. I can't wait to find out!