{"id":15447,"date":"2024-11-22T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=15447"},"modified":"2024-11-19T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:15:42","slug":"the-ziggurat-of-sean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/the-ziggurat-of-sean\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ziggurat of Se\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/the-ziggurat-of-sean\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>While we&#8217;re in the midst of the sale we don&#8217;t have much in the way of new releases or other news to give you, but it&#8217;s a good chance to share projects and photos that people have sent us. This is a superb little diorama by Se\u00e1n Holden based around our <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/ziggurat-of-ur\/\">Ziggurat of Ur<\/a> model from the <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product-category\/small-scale-scenery\/\">Small Scale Scenery<\/a> range. Se\u00e1n has used the Ziggurat as the centre-piece with buildings from the <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/middle-eastern-village\/\">Middle-Eastern<\/a> village set (there&#8217;s also the odd interloper from the <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/mediterranean-village-pack-of-20\/\">Mediterranean Village<\/a> set). The whole is surrounded by walls and towers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product-category\/small-scale-scenery\/modular-castles\/\">Modular Castles<\/a> range. He&#8217;s named it <em>The Hanging Gardens of Cranbrook<\/em> !<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve created a pack so that you can buy all the pieces that you need to make this layout yourself &#8211; you can find it <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/product\/hanging-gardens-set\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15448\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/the-ziggurat-of-sean\/ziggurat-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-11.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,655\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ziggurat 11\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-11.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-11-768x491.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/the-ziggurat-of-sean\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15447 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/the-ziggurat-of-sean\/ziggurat-13\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-13-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-13-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-13-850x478.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" 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landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/the-ziggurat-of-sean\/ziggurat-12\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-12-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-12-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-12-850x478.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" data-attachment-id=\"15450\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/the-ziggurat-of-sean\/ziggurat-12\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-12.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/the-ziggurat-of-sean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Today we take a look at a superb mini-diorama by Se\u00e1n Holden using our Ziggurat model to make a 2mm Hanging Gardens layout.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting-and-modelling","category-small-scale-scenery"],"views":928,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ziggurat-11.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-419","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13292,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/11\/markets-and-temples\/","url_meta":{"origin":15447,"position":0},"title":"Markets and Temples","author":"Tony","date":"November 4, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"After a period of radio silence here, we're back. We re-opened the website a couple of weeks ago, although we did it quietly to avoid being swamped by orders (which sort of worked). 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