LEGO Sculptures 40179 Personalised Mosaic Portrait

LEGO set 40179, Personalised Mosaic Portrait, is a mosaic model intended to create a personalised portrait. It belongs to the Sculptures theme, within the Mosaic subtheme, was released in 2016 and contains 4502 pieces.

Personalised Mosaic Portrait belongs to the Mosaic branch of the Sculptures theme.

The building experience is centred on visual composition, repeated placement and the arrangement of pieces across a surface.

This set is mainly suited to builders who want a display piece rather than a play scenario. Within Sculptures, it differs from more conventional three dimensional models by treating the LEGO medium as an image making system. For collectors, it sits clearly in the Mosaic subtheme and represents a construction approach focused on portrait composition.

Inventory of set 40179

The inventory of set 40179 lists 4,502 pieces, spare parts excluded: 7 different lots (one shape in one color) for 3 part shapes.

Colors of set 40179

Main color: light bluish gray, making up 20% of the parts, followed by yellow (20%) and white (20%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 40179

2 of the 3 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

No part in set 40179 is exclusive: each one is found in at least one other set, which makes replacing a lost element easier.

Rebuilding set 40179 from another set

Share of the parts of set 40179 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 35%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 40179 within its line

With 4,502 pieces, it is the largest of the 6 Sculptures sets in our database, which have an average of 1,942 parts. Among the 459 sets released in 2016, it ranks #2. That is 2.3 times the average Sculptures set size.