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I'm going to stand on a ladder, even though heights scare me. Actually, to paraphrase S. Wright, I'm not afraid of heights: I'm afraid of widths.

Broad shots are hard, I need to get suspended over the room.

Southwest corner, the Charli house and 18-pounder from the U.S. Navy Assault on the north wall north wall patio of the Charli house

middle of the west wall northwest corner inside west wall south wall south wall north end of west wall old kitchen

Column of 300 Mexican infantry assault the east wall; defender firing off the roof of the granary. The Alamo at dawn. Firing into the west wall. The venerable old Alamo under fire.

Scene just inside the main gate on the south end of the fort. There is a small barricade to cover the gate with two small cannons. Lancers move in on defenders attempting to get to church by following the ditchwork outside the south wall; gate and lunette is to the left, lunette ditch in...

Scott, your stuff is hilarious. I love the Austen vignettes.

One more thing, and then I'll stop. The three pictures here (I now believe) show the NW corner of the Alamo. The viewer is inside the fort, looking NW at three different angles. The tree is in the right position, according to the oldest surveyor plats and the known location of the Maverick...

I have rechecked the location of the Maverick house, and see that I have made a mistake. The view in the bottom picture is to the southwest-- in other words, not only does it seem to show the same tree with the same shapes (the only big tree like this near the Alamo at the time of the battle)...

Examples of the current idea of the Alamo west wall, all of which place the buildings in the Eastman drawing further to the south, and away from the tree-- away from the Maverick corner. George Nelson's version, placing the Maverick house and tree in the proper location (1861), and no tree...

Here's something I just discovered. I think that the little house in the photograph is one of the ones in the drawing. These would be the only pictures of the upper end of the west wall, the drawing from 1848-49 and the photograph as in the descriptive materials. I am now pretty sure about...

I have about 700 figures on the board or ready to be mounted, and I wanted to have 2000 in the end. Most of the 1300 are at this time unpainted plastic, and in pretty poor condition. The main problem is the very low diversity of poses; and the problem of the mass painting. I used to be able...

Looking across to the north wall. Convent on the right; the "platform" way off to the left. The platform is the building in the center. From this position, to the east of the fort, you can see why it was a valuable structure. After a few more months, I am beginning to think of it as a...

There was an artist named McArdle who collected all of the available information about the Alamo for an epic painting in 1875; it was finished and destroyed in a fire in the State capitol in 1881. So he picked up and did it again. Central to both paintings is a shaky platform in the midst of...

Please take a look at my books on Amazon-- From Under God's Wing; Enrique Esparza's Account of the Battle of the Alamo (Eakin Press, 2008) The Adventures of Jesse James and His Progress, Book I (Kindle, 2011, 99 cents) The Alamo book contains some illustrations developed from my model and...

Nonsense. Mine will never be as grand as I want it to be. Besides, what we do is very peculiar, you know, and we ought to make up the rules as we go along. For example, I've just scored some original rubber Auburn pioneers-- they've all got coonskin caps, one is swinging Ol' Betsey, and they...