Whether you’re a Marvel fan, a LEGO® lover or both, this 480-piece construction kit will provide you with a challenging build and absorbing escapism. It makes a great birthday gift, Christmas present or personal treat. What do you think? How do you like the LEGO Iron Man Helmet and the other buildable helmets? Do you like sculpting with LEGO? Have you used any sculpting techniques in your own projects? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below!

It’s also still most obviously Iron Man, even if not perfect, and for wider LEGO Marvel collections or for helmet-based display-centric collections, it has a more than viable role to play. This direction of design overall is really fascinating from the LEGO Group and as more helmet-based releases come the impression is that 76165 Iron Man Helmet will begin to find more fans and a more solid appreciation. The build was fairly brisk – only taking about an hour of casual building, so is perfect for a lazy weekend build that will scratch a LEGO itch without having to commit a heap of time.

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Here’s a simple way to think about it. Grab any object you wish to sculpt. Then imagine how much of the object you would need to cut away to create smooth boxy angles. This imagined shape is where you should start with your own box frame, since the other shapes can be added later. PANELING FOR LEGO SCULPTURES Unfortunately, 76165 Iron Man Helmet does not deliver where it needs to most, as a display model that accurately recreates an iconic Marvel character’s helmet. It’s a scale, working budget and build approach that is clearly providing a few challenges for the LEGO design teams in both Marvel and Star Wars in these early sets. The use of the drum-lacquered elements is really nice, and I just love seeing more of these elements get used in sets. It does the job of making the helmet “pop” thanks to the sheen it gives off, and does reflect off light very nicely when on display. Part of a series of LEGO® Marvel models designed to deliver a satisfying build-and-display experience that will appeal to any fan of model making or comic-book culture Whether you’re a Marvel fan, a LEGO lover or both, this 480-piece construction kit will provide you with a challenging build and absorbing escapism. It makes a great birthday gift, Christmas present or personal treat.

The principles are pretty straight-forward; start with a frame, then mount the features. Augment this frame to bring out the features of your sculpt. And finally, detail the edges when necessary. But it remains far from perfect, particularly for being the first LEGO Super Heroes helmet, and particularly for anyone hoping for something really accurate. For where the helmet range carries great potential looking ahead, for the budget currently at play here, 76165 Iron Man Helmet feels like a misfortunate compromise both for LEGO fans buying it and for a design team who with a little more flexibility could produce something even better. — Characters — The build was quite interesting, and not particularly challenging, consisting of building the core of the helmet, before assembling the mask as the finale.Test your creative construction superpowers with the LEGO Marvel Avengers Iron Man Helmet; If you’re an adult Marvel fan or model-building enthusiast, this buildable display model is for you And that’s why the LEGO helmet looks so odd and unrecognisable. Most immediately, the face is too flat, the jawline protrudes where it should sink in, the eyes are too deep and the head too wide. That furrowed brow expression is also most unfortunate, for being the most striking issue with the overall expression and perhaps most reflective of the face you’ll be pulling once you’ve finished building 76165 Iron Man Helmet.