Diddly Squat Farm Shop

The Diddly Squat Farm Shop is open for business, and nobody's quite in control. Goats have claimed the roof, a combine harvester is bearing down on the car park, a bull has somewhere to be, and the queue for Cow Juice stretches past a tractor that may or may not be moving. Sheep are being loaded (or possibly unloaded) from a livestock trailer, chickens are everywhere, and a hay bale has clearly had a disagreement with a smaller tractor near the dry-stone wall.

Illustrator Andy Tudor drew this 1000-piece commission for Ravensburger, and his knack for comic chaos is all over it. Every corner of the scene has something going on: a farm shop stuffed with produce, customers who look mildly alarmed, and the unmistakable sense that health and safety clocked off some time ago. Fans of the Clarkson's Farm series will clock the details: the signage, the vehicles, the general atmosphere of cheerful disorder.

As a build, this one is a proper challenge. The scene is busy from edge to edge, with dozens of figures, animals, and vehicles packed into a single yard. Sorting by colour will only get you so far. You'll need to work section by section. 1000 pieces.