This post is a review of the nanoblock Daruma build. Daruma is part of the nanoblock Sights to See collection. Wondering what else is part of the Sights to See collection? Click here for a list.
Number: NBH_195
Number of Pieces: 400
Difficulty Rating: 3/5
The Dauma doll begins with a layer of red bricks. I laid the base out on my nanoblock pad to keep everything lined up.
After a couple layers, the yellow stripes become visible. The layers trade around what exactly is in a layer so that one yellow brick remains visible while all the rest of the yellow is covered by red. There are some very neat tricks to keep just one corner of yellow visible.
After several layers of yellow and red, I began to build the face. The face is made up of black, orange, and skin-tone bricks. I like the addition of the orange to add some detail to the face. I also really like how nanoblock used all sorts of bricks to create curves in the face and the eyebrows.
The Daruma is then closed up to finish the build. The kit comes with several different kanji stickers, but since I’m not sure what any of them are, I chose not to put any on my doll.
The final step is to add the eyes. Normally, if you make a wish on the Daruma, you fill in one eye when you make the wish and the other eye when the wish comes true. I chose to put both eyes on my doll for the photos.
Things I liked:
- I really like that this build is close to the size of the actual Daruma dolls I have seen
Things I didn’t like:
- I didn’t like how the directions look like the eye is attached using the center of the round brick when it actually attached using the one of the edge holes