{"id":17244,"date":"2026-02-27T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=17244"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:47:57","slug":"temples-of-the-mayans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/temples-of-the-mayans\/","title":{"rendered":"Temples of the Mayans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re all packed up and ready to leave for Hammerhead<\/a> later today, but we’ll leave you with another new release this morning. We think we have some of these with us, but we’re not 100% sure where they are, so things are uncertain until we get to Newark and unload the stock boxes !<\/p>\n

This week we’re slipping back to pre-colonisation America with three Mayan temples. The largest is the Temple of Kukulcan<\/a>, also know as El Castillo or the Pyramid of Kukulcan, the central building of the Chichen Itza site. Built sometime between the 8th and 12th centuries, the structure is dedicated to the feathered serpent deity Kukulc\u00e1n.<\/p>\n

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(l-r) Small Tikal Temple, Temple of the Masks, Pyramid de Kukulcan<\/p><\/div>\n

The second model is the Temple of the Masks, rather more prosaically known as Tikal Structure 5D-2. The Tikal site is in the rain forests of Guatemala and covers 16km\u00b2. You may have spotted its massive roof comb (the sticky-up bit) in the Yavin scenes of Star Wars as the Millenium Falcon flies overhead !<\/p>\n

The last of this week’s trio is a smaller generic temple, similar to several found on the Tikal site. We could have carried on making slightly different types of temple and covered the whole of Tikal, but we’ve stopped at two for now.<\/p>\n

SSS-8212<\/a> – Piramide de Kukulcan – \u00a33.50
\nSSS-8225<\/a> – Temple of the Masks – \u00a32.50
\nSSS-8226<\/a> – Tikal Small Temple – \u00a31.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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