Picture of the month

This month I'm showing you two structures that have been waiting to be completed for a very long time. I got my two Bing boxes about 15-16 years ago, but I never had the chance to build with them. The big problem with the sets is that they were either left in a warm or damp place, or both. Some of the stones swelled or cracked. From the two boxes, I was able to collect less than enough stones for a complete box with good quality stones. From an Anker point of view, it was important that the set had damaged stones of the basic type, all the arches, green columns, and balls were intact and flawless.

I chose two difficult models for the construction. According to the instructions in the booklet, you need to pile up stones under the forming large arch. These should be taken out when the entire arch is completed and the capstone is in place. 

I would like to say to those builders who complain about the dimensional inaccuracy of Richter shapes that Anker stones are much better than Bing stones. 

For those who are familiar with the phenomenon of stones rotating on their corners on top of each other, I would like to say that when building an arch, stones placed at an angle rotate even nastier. I had my tries with an arch for many minutes, and during this time all the green stones fell over several times. 
Later, I made another structure from the booklet. The structures have a very strange appearance and are strikingly different from the designs of the Richter Art Department. I looked at them for several days, but my "Anker" eyes could not get used to the phenomenon. 

Everyone should judge the aesthetic level for themselves. It is certain that the level of construction is in the "very difficult" category. I think no child will find pleasure in these patterns, because they cause a lot of struggle.