So why make a blogpost here, on "Making a big big puzzle"?
Wel I did put down 18.000 pieces yesterday and today again!
What did I do? Well, Pim and I glued the previous puzzle that I made. That's the 18.000 piece puzzle "Skylines of the World".
It a 18240 piece puzzle that shows four night skylines of big cities. It includes New York, San Francisco, Sydney and Singapore.
Skylines of the World is the second puzzle over 10.000 pieces that I made. I don't know exactly when I started. I was still busy with the second half of my first >10.000 piece puzzle (The creation of Adam) in January of 2010. So I probably started it around the second half of 2010.
At the end of Oktober, I was about a third done with the puzzle, when I saw that there was a misprint in the picture!
Can you find the mistake?
Because it took a couple of e-mails and a clarifying picture before the people from Ravensburger noticed that something was really wrong with my puzzle.
In the end they sent me a complete new puzzle. Which meant that I could start all over!
I think I started it again in January of 2011 and I was done April 2014. Puzzling off and on (sometimes I had a break of over half a year before continuing) it took a little over 3 years to finish it.
Since I don't really have the space to hang this puzzle, I donated it to the Google office in Zürich to hang it on the wall. So yesterday Pim and I went to the Google office to build the frame and glue the top of the puzzle.
First came the woodwork!
Than the laying down of 18.240 pieces!
Done! This was the first time I saw the whole puzzle in one piece!
This is the gue that comes on top of the puzzle, so the pieces are protected and they stick together.
It dried overnight and today we went back to glue the puzzle to the frame and painted the frame around the puzzle.
Not even two thirds done, we ran out of glue!
Luckily there is a small paper store at Bahnhof Enge, that had some small bottles of paper glue!
And we could finish.
Then came the painting, not much of it, because the border isn't big!
And we are done! Now the only thing left to do is let it dry overnight and than the nice people at Google can hang it up on the wall.
With this next to it. Pim made an info plaque that features my name!!
Hi Marina. I work on that floor and I was so happy to see this amazing piece of art and craftsmanship in permanent display. I walk by it multiple times a day and it's always a good sight. Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteAlso: five years, wow!
Hi Yves, I'm glad you like it.
DeleteThanks to Google it really has a nice place to be shown off.
I know, 5 years sounds a lot, but it's not that I'm constantly thinking of the puzzle for 5 years. Sometimes I would put it away for months. One time even for about a year. And then for a couple of weeks I would be puzzling every evening trying to finish a part.
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ReplyDeleteHello Marina, this puzzle really impressed me allot. And I'm amazed every time I do my patrolls in this building 100. I wish I could do something like this one day.
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