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| "The Love and Hope Bus," Eurographics, 1000 pieces |
This has to be one of the most thoroughly enjoyable puzzling experiences I've had so far this year. The image is remarkable in a number of ways: nostalgia value, detail, colors, and cast of characters alone. But what makes the construction process so much fun, I think is the puzzle's numerous straight color lines in the sky and water. Working the various colors in the sky from left to right is fairly easy, and that gives the puzzler that satisfying feeling of "steady progress" all the way through this one.
But I, of course, could not resist beginning with the frame and the puzzle's central image rather than the skyline...that wonderful old, hippified VW bus.
It was only then that I started to work on the puzzle's spectacular skyline, a section that went fairly quickly, so that before I knew it, about forty percent of the puzzle was all done.
This is where simply working left-to-right got me by the end of the third day. The only thing left was the beach itself and the two large female characters sitting around the bus.
Soon enough the guitar-picking hippy on the left and the beautiful lady on the right were taking form and it was more of a matter of finishing the sand and shells than anything else.
This was really fun, and I recommend the whole American Classics series to anyone, but especially to those of a "certain age" who lived through (and loved) this era as part of their own youth. Eurographics makes a high-quality puzzle, and my only real complaint about this one is that it is nearly impossible to turn their puzzles over for taping without having a significant portion of them falling apart on you. That's a real problem for those of us who prefer taping over gluing, so this one ended up back in the box.
(I'll be doing a full review and ranking of Eurographics soon that will be added to my Company Reviews page.)
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