Slow in here (aka Toho's Puzzles)

I am thinking of buying a printer and offset paper and making a few shirts. Now that I gotta get rid of most of my wardrobe, I am in the market for new stuff.

If you do, let me know.

I have a bunch of pics I'd like to get made into T-shirts.

the puzzles are beautiful ..

I was right, this new one is a bitch.

For one thing, the entire frame consists of nothing but solid blue pieces; no way to match them up other than the shape of each piece and with these weird shapes I'm not even sure which pieces are edge pieces.

And then there's the weird shapes of the pieces in general.  I've read several reviews where people actually assembled the middle sections first then expanded out to the edges.  I may do that too because assembling the cats first then building out seems like a better strategy than the usual "do the frame first" strategy I and most people use when puzzling. 

This one is definitely a challenge but in a different way than that 200 cats one I posted earlier was.  But that's what makes puzzles fun.

tohostudios wrote:

If you do, let me know.

I have a bunch of pics I'd like to get made into T-shirts.

Sorry, I missed this somehow. Sure, I will hook you up with whatever you want bro. Mail it right to your door too LOL.

Managed to piece together a few more sections of this puzzle today.  It's a real bear!

I've actually started trying to assemble the individual cats before finishing the frame because my hope is that I can build out toward the edges.  But these weird piece shapes are proving a real challenge.  Not sure if I'll finish this one but I'm not giving up just yet.

How often do you give up?

So far I've given up once and that was that puzzle of The Thing.

The Thing..... Um, My mind is racing trying to think of what thing you are talking about.

This one from the first page of the thread:



It's based on the 1982 movie "John Carpenter's The Thing" - one of my all time favorite movies.

Look at that picture.  No real parts to start from; everything looks the same.  AND that one had weird-shaped pieces like the one I'm doing now has but I'm hoping the individual cats in this current one give me a starting point.  I've already gotten farther than I ever got with The Thing.  Although this current puzzle is requiring a different strategy because the entire frame is solid blue.  So I've assembled what I could of the frame then started on the cats in the middle.  I'm hoping to work my way outward once I get a few cats completed.

I also gave up on one decades ago (the last time I was into puzzles).  It was an egg standing on end against a white background.  Impossible.

Can't stop looking at that picture LOL. It's mesmerizing.

I love that movie.

It's about a scientific camp in Antarctica that comes across a centuries-old extraterrestrial that can change its cells to mimic any life form.  They keep catching it in the middle of transforming itself which results in a lot of gory scenes like the one in that puzzle.

OH MY GOD!!!!! I REMEMBER THAT MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!
I watched that a long time ago but I DO remember it now!!!

Well I've got the leopard and the white tiger head assembled.  This is like no other puzzle I've ever worked because between the weird shapes of the pieces and the fact that the entire frame is solid blue, I'm putting the interior together first and will work my way outward to the edges.

With your patience you were born to be a Dad.

LOL

It's funny how this puzzle goes in ebbs and flows.  When I started in on it today I wasn't getting much done, just a few pieces here and there.  Then all of a sudden a few pieces fell into place and in less than 5 minutes I got half of the lion assembled. 

But now here's the sucky part.  I need to rotate the puzzle because this one is taller than it is wide and it won't fit in my puzzle caddy unless I turn it sideways.  That means I have to move all the unassembled pieces aside than pick up sections of the assembled pieces and reposition them.   That's tricky with this puzzle because of the weird piece shapes.  If one or two fall out in the move process it's not easy to find where they go again.  That's already happened a couple times as I've joined assembled sections to each other. 

But this is going to be a beautiful puzzle; the colors are really vibrant.

You'll have to show us the finished product

Thought I'd take an "in-progress" pic.  Here's where the latest puzzle stands after about another hour of working on it this evening:

That is going to be totally nice when finished!

Got the tiger's head put together today and attached to the backend of the leopard's body. 

I have a feeling that once I get the middle parts (all the cats) assembled and connected this is going to get real challenging because all that will be left are dark blue pieces and with the weird shapes it's going to take forever to get complete.

That is a nice-looking puzzle!

Do they make One piece puzzles? I would end up losing the one piece.

That's always my worst fear when putting a puzzle together.  Spend all this time and effort putting it together only to find there's one piece missing at the end.  It's happened once so far but I think I found the piece underneath the assembled puzzle when I was taking it apart.  Guess I'll find out next time I put that one together. 

Got the tiger and some of the jungle plants assembled today.  That only leaves the head of the lion then I'm left with the background and frame (i.e., LOTS of dark blue pieces).  That's going to be  hard.

Here's where it stands now:

One of the recent sermons the associate pastor taught was on the body of the church being likened unto a puzzle. Everyone is a piece of the whole puzzle and if one person is missing, the puzzle is incomplete. Just thought I would share that.

Back to the original  title of the post..... It is Sunday.... and it is creeeeeepy silent in here.

It's always "creepy silent" in here on weekends because people like Eilene only log in from work and OBF is always off on some new fishing excursion.

And I have Church 3 times on Sunday. I should be cleaning the rest of the day but .... Naaaah

Puzzle looks great and I love seeing the progress