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Hi All, I'm coming close to completing my 1/72 scale Alamo model and thought I would share some of the pics. I hope you enjoy them. Mike

Thanks, Jack! It was a fun project. The main gate section, featured in the photos below, was actually the first building I made for the model. Other than the church, this was probably my favorite building. The design was created by Alamo architectural genius, Craig Covner. The gates were roughly...

Although I was under the impression the model I was building for Andy was going to a "private collector", I was excited and surprised when I found out it was in the Briscoe Museum of Western Art in San Antonio. Anyway, I think Andy and his team did an excellent job of setting up the figures and...

Thank you, sir! The columns or pillars were constructed from styrene plastic strips (half round). I did the artwork for the doors and my friend did the artwork for the arched niches. I had those laser engraved and then made molds and resin castings. Most of the sections on the facade that look...

Wow...thanks. I do try to match it stone for stone, at least as far as the church goes. I figure if I even get close (and I haven't gone blind), then I'm doing OK. As far as posting steps on how to do it, I'm afraid I only have a couple of pics where the building is in it's "balsa foam" stage. I...

Thank you all very much for your comments. Here are a couple of pics of the main gate and the interior of the main gate. The interpretation of the gate was designed by my friend and Alamo architectural genius Craig Covner. Thanks Again, Texan

Thank you, Mike. Yes, sir, I did the artwork for the door and a friend of mine did the artwork for the niches and I had them laser engraved. Once that was completed I made molds and resin copies. This way I could match whatever damage was on the "real" Alamo. The columns, column bases, keystone...

Hello Everyone, I haven't posted in a couple of years. Anyway, thought I would share some of my new (and old) Alamo models and facade. Here's my new 1/72 Alamo church building. I'm one west wall building away from completing the entire compound! Here's the facade of a model I just made...

Just in case anyone's interested, here is the Alamo facade of my newest "little" project. It's roughly 2 in. tall! Hard to get all the detail in there that I wanted, but I tried.;)

I have the Marx Fort Apache and Commanche Pass (think that's what it's called) with the 2 mountains. Loved that one when I was a kid. My kids have it set up right now. Pretty cool to see them doing some of the things I did when I was a kid. I also have the Marx WWII and just found in my mom's...

Hey Wadepat and Louis, I am originally from Irving, just outside Dallas and I now live out in the country (and I mean COUNTRY) in Lenapah, OK (45 min north of Tulsa). Lived in Wichita, KS for about 5 yrs as well, but there's no place like TEXAS! Thanks for your comments as well. I'm working on...

Scott, This is the floor plan I used for a good deal of my interior measurements when I built my Alamo. I thought I struck "GOLD" when I found it on-line. The watercolor is from Edward Everett who, coupled with Seth Eastman, has given us some of the best post battle sketches (1847-1849) of...

I was messing around with some photo effects on-line trying to capture an antique or old daguerreotype look. Didn't turn out like I planned. Kind of cheesy, but I don't mind sharing them here. Thanks. And of the course the Davy Crockett, Give 'Em What Fer! poster! Now that's cheesy, but I...

Reb, As you know I just joined yesterday and I too am an Alamo guy and from Texas. I just read the entire story from start to finish. Saying that was amazing would be an understatement! Simply incredible. If that were in book form, I would buy it. I can't find the words to express how absolutely...

Hey Reb, I should have joined here a long time ago. There's great stuff over here and these guys are great! Your Alamo work is looking fantastic as well. Thanks again Mike

Scott, Everything looks to be as you've matched them up, except the SW corner for the 18 pounder. Some say the picture shows the lunnette, some say it's the SW corner. If you put the sketch with the map, then it appears to be the lunnette. But then you've got the debate of what the lunette was...

Wow! A 1/32 scale of the entire Alamo compound would be enormous. I did a 1/300 scale of the entire compound, but before I could secure it down and add the groundwork, my 4 yr old kind of destroyed it. Split the church right down the middle. After that, I just gave him the rest to play with...

Well, the bronze was the initial reason for building the model. The Alamo has never been done in bronze, at least not at this scale, so that inspired me. The foundry raised the price on me when it was completed siting that it was too detailed and would take multiple molds which would increase...

Actually, the flag is "planted" in the tower. You are viewing the Alamo from the west side which is direction in which the facade faces. Although, in the drawing, the window in the center of the church is circular, it is probably the way it appeared to Navarro when he sketched the compound, from...

Thanks. I do have it on the Sentry. I have spoken with Mark several times via e-mail. His work has inspired me to take my Alamo work to a new and, I hope, improved level. The source for the wooden tower/observation platform, comes from an 1836 map from Jose Sanchez-Navarro, an engineer in the...