*Christian Thomas*
Sarah Afonso: Menina sentada - 1,000 pieces - mesaboardgames (2014), progress
Considering Educa's dominant local market position, it requires some courage to establish a new puzzle producer on the Iberian Peninsula. 2010 founded Portuguese company mesaboardgames had the guts, and started to produce a small but lovely range of 1,000 pieces, all of them with domestic reference, in 2014.
On a recent vacation in the magnificent city of Lisbon, I discovered this brand, but limited luggage capacity would allow only one puzzle on the flight home, so I went for this charming painting.
The puzzle is of very good manufacturing quality, bright colours and solid cardboard. Almost all pieces are standard-shaped, just a few wavy cuts in between. As some noses have very similar shapes, you'll end up with some misplacements when placing pieces with only a single connecting edge.
I actually like the way the original, uncropped painting is 'stretched' to puzzle measures by the monochrome background at the bottom (and prefer this true-to-the-original technique to the common cropping of art designs in puzzles).
Although without use of the reference for the first time (inspired by some guy from Billsville), the puzzle turned out to be pretty easy sledding.
Statistics
stage 1: 578 pieces in 4:04 h (142 pph / pieces per hour)
Sarah Afonso: Menina sentada - 1,000 pieces - mesaboardgames (2014), progress
Considering Educa's dominant local market position, it requires some courage to establish a new puzzle producer on the Iberian Peninsula. 2010 founded Portuguese company mesaboardgames had the guts, and started to produce a small but lovely range of 1,000 pieces, all of them with domestic reference, in 2014.
On a recent vacation in the magnificent city of Lisbon, I discovered this brand, but limited luggage capacity would allow only one puzzle on the flight home, so I went for this charming painting.
The puzzle is of very good manufacturing quality, bright colours and solid cardboard. Almost all pieces are standard-shaped, just a few wavy cuts in between. As some noses have very similar shapes, you'll end up with some misplacements when placing pieces with only a single connecting edge.
I actually like the way the original, uncropped painting is 'stretched' to puzzle measures by the monochrome background at the bottom (and prefer this true-to-the-original technique to the common cropping of art designs in puzzles).
Although without use of the reference for the first time (inspired by some guy from Billsville), the puzzle turned out to be pretty easy sledding.
Statistics
stage 1: 578 pieces in 4:04 h (142 pph / pieces per hour)