All Jigsaw Puzzlers out there post your puzzles!

I have stolen hub's only jigsaw - his favourite breed of 'guinea pig': it squeaks and whistles but runs on tracks and on time... :D

Hub is already put out since I have achieved several days' work of his in just a couple of hours, sorting out the pieces into rim, red, platform dish, trees/sky dish and the rest, which is much easier to trawl through now. The colours are not necessarily the same as in the picture; especially with the smoke but with the pieces being very irregular it actually helps with finding fits more quickly.
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Just finished the prep before I deal with the goblins

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@Wiebke I've sorted these by letter (printed on the reverse) but if I don't have letters to work with I sort the rest as much as possible. Sky, grass, roof, building colours, flowers. Takes longer to get started but saves so much time during the actual building.
 
Lorcan said:
Just finished the prep before I deal with the goblins

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@Wiebke I've sorted these by letter (printed on the reverse) but if I don't have letters to work with I sort the rest as much as possible. Sky, grass, roof, building colours, flowers. Takes longer to get started but saves so much time during the actual building.
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No letters on my jigsaws but sorting the pieces into smaller units is really worth the initial hassle with going through a thousand pieces. It is then also that bit easier to distinguish the subtly different shades in larger areas when you have all relevant pieces right next to each other.
 
I am calling it a day, having done a really great job at annoying my super-competitive hub, just by assembling the platform that he struggled with for three days in a single hour after dinner after he'd explained to me how difficult he found it. One has to savour the little joys of life... I can't trounce him often.
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What's left are all the really dark and less defined parts of the locomotive and the fiddly trees. I need some decent daylight for that. My back is hurting now anyway!

Lunchtime
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This evening
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I want to start the next puzzle but don't want to break up "Guinea pig in a meadow" puzzle as it was so difficult to do. I can't do my new puzzle just on the table like I did with the German Castle as we need to take the table with us next week in the caravan. Its a dilemma!
 
Folding table you need like one of them paste tables
Betsy said:
I want to start the next puzzle but don't want to break up "Guinea pig in a meadow" puzzle as it was so difficult to do. I can't do my new puzzle just on the table like I did with the German Castle as we need to take the table with us next week in the caravan. Its a dilemma!
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If you were any closer @Betsy I'd say you could have a Portapuzzle since it's just collecting dust under the sofa but I'm in the wrong part of England lol.
 
Thank you @Lorcan. It's on a Portapuzzle atm.

The puzzle is so lovely and it was so difficult, I want to admire it for longer. And I want to start my new puzzle as well.
 
I deliberately bought cardboard sheets I could use to store mine on, because I live alone so no arguments about wasted space and I hate dismantling them once done. Some of them took far too much effort for that. I know, I'm weird lol.
 
Done! Filling out the black front third of the locomotive around the obvious bits was the most difficult and slowest part. It did come down to tiny rivets (there are too many in too many places) and shadings. The colour values especially of the smoke nd in the black paint of the locomotive differ quite a bit from the picture on the box.

Hub was full of insincere praise and is looking forward to a fine old man grouching session with his best mates at the model railway club next week... :D

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Lorcan said:
I feel like I can't work out if I'm doing really badly or really well considering the source material

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When I did my Jigraphy puzzle, I found the streets the hardest to do as all the pieces look the same! After the sea, I looked for the next obviously easy bit to do and then went from there. Good luck!
 
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