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Scenes on the south end of the Alamo; storming the main gate. Scotty at the palisade; the King & Country figure based on the defender who had a "duel" with Crockett using musical instruments. Crockett to his right. Storming the southwest corner and 18-pounder. On the south end, the fight...

I'm going to steal Scott's ideas about the Conte conversions of those poses, but the thing is that Conte doesn't give you enough figures of each pose. It's true that you can swap their heads, but some of those facial expressions are worthless-- they have their mouths wide open, making everyone...

Officer directs placement of the ladders at the northwest battery of the Alamo. Travis confronts Col. Mora, one of the first Mexicans over the wall. Looking from the northwest to the northeast corner. Fierce fighting on the northeast corner.

Preparation of figures for the northwest corner of the Alamo (Col. Travis' post; he appears as the one who is crouched, hatless, with blue coat). Marx 60mm Mexican War Mexican soldiers, Conte plastic Alamo Mexicans, and Italieri 60mm 95th Rifles (using Baker Rifles with sword bayonets, surplus...

Overlay of the old fort on the modern grounds. The current streets follow the old pathways through the Alamo.

One of my working maps for the model, based on one of the most reliable plats, by Capt. Edward Everett (1848 or 49, despite the date on the map). He omitted all of the wooden and adobe structures that remained; most of the single walls and defensive works were gone by this time (the battle was...

Stop by and see it if you get to my part of the woods ever. Open invitation to everyone here. Of course, up close you can see all of the flaws, so I will make sure you have beer. Send me a message for more contact information.

Well, this is why my 20X20 garage is full, though I can still fit a couple of bicycles in. The Alamo platform is 12X15 feet. What you realize when you build a model of the fort is that it was way too big-- a line of defensive works 500 feet long, 300 feet deep. Very little of it is left today.

These pictures are all of a previous version of the model. This one shows the breach of the north wall, and most of these pictures are meant to show the bad light of twilight dawn, since the attack started about 5 a.m. The Mexican army in a force of about a thousand broke through the north...

Thanks again for all of the positive remarks! I will show them to my wife when it comes time to expand into the patio... The scale is 1:32, but the larger figures tend to a 1:30 size. Luckily the old missions had doorways for shorter individuals-- even back then, frontiersmen would tend to...

Thanks for the great feedback and support. I will post more within the next day or so-- I've just done a bunch of pictures of the north wall. I can also post maps if they help to show what's going on in the pictures.

The diorama uses 54 and 60mm metal and plastic figures from all of the main companies-- Marx, Barzso, Conte, TSSD, Britains, King & Country-- and from many of their lines, including Civil War and Napoleonic. The fort is the proper scale but for the length of the main plaza, which is...