King & Country's Battle of San Jacinto Museum Display... (2 Viewers)

[mikemiller1955]

I saw Andy and Chris Munroe.....
Friday a week ago...
(Sept 25th)...
at the Chicago Toy Soldier Show...
in the King & Country room trading room...

knowing that I live in Galveston, Texas...
Andy mentioned that Laura...Chris and himself...
were doing a large scale model diorama...
of the Battle of San Jacinto in Galveston...
at the Bryan Museum the following Tuesday...

https://thebryanmuseum.org/

the battle actually took place about 30 minutes from Galveston in La Porte, Texas...

on Thursday...
they called me and told me that they were hard at work...
but I could come look at it if I wanted...
honored to get a sneak peek...
hehehe...
of course I jumped on the opportunity...
as I live about 40 blocks from it (5-10 minutes)...

and it is pretty awesome...

7 foot by 10 foot...
planned to be enclosed in acrylic...

it is pretty wicked spectacular...

if you don't know...
the Battle of San Jacinto...
it was the decisive battle ...
that Texas fought and won against the Mexican army...
that allowed Texas to form an independent Republic...

the Battle of San Jacinto was a complete rout by the Texicans...

600 Mexican soldiers were killed...
750 taken prisoners...

while only 11 Texicans were killed...

a total rout of epic proportions...

on April 21st, 1836...
this was the final battle for independence of Texas from Mexico...

it followed the Alamo defeat on March 6th, 1836...
where General Santa Anna of the Mexican army...
issued a brutal "no quarter" attack...
on the Alamo...
leaving no prisoners...

a month and a half later...
at the Battle of San Jacinto...
the battle cry of that day was...
"Remember the Alamo"...
and
"no quarter"...
by the Texas army...
and the Texicans offered little mercy to prisoners...
until Sam Houston could quell the slaughter and restore some humanity...

the diorama that Andy and Chris are working on will have between 1,500-2,000 figures...

Andy said this diorama should pretty accurately represent the forces in true number as the actual day of the battle...

Chris has made 60-70 handmade trees that are very nice...
made from a real sagebrush style shrub pieces...
they have those very realistic trunk armatures...
that only Mother Nature herself can do...

Andy also said the diorama has over 3,000 grass tuft plugs in the terrain...
that is a lot of work...

the outlay of the diorama is a very accurate geographical copy of the actual battle field...

Andy even has the area known as...
"the killing field"...or "the slaughter field"...
with a clear resin water filled area...
representing the marsh where the Mexicans tried to surrender or flee...
but were shot down in revenge for the Alamo and the Massacre of Goliad...
with dozens of dead Soldados floating in the water...

they were offered no quarter as Texicans screamed...
"Remember the Alamo"...
and the Mexicans replied trying to surrender...
"Me no Alamo"...

it is a really interesting and well done display...
with maybe a dozen individual points of interest that they created...
that unfold the actual events of the day in a pretty factual historic fashion...

not installed yet...
but they plan to have 6-8 head phone sets...
where you put on the head phones...
and it gives a little speech by a specific personality at the battle...
ex: Sam Houston...Santa Anna...The Yellow Rose of Texas...

I have a friend that works at the museum...

I am going to have her notify me when it's completed so I can go take another look at the finished product...

sorry...

but no pictures were allowed...

perhaps Andy can post some...

if you're ever in Galveston...

this is a must see....

VERY IMPRESSIVE...

 

[PanzerAce1944]

Mike, Its a shame no pictures are allowed of the Diorama ! Needs to be seen as it sounds pretty impressive !

Wayne

 

[mikemiller1955]

Wayne...

did you ever see the King & Country Alamo diorama that Andy did at the Briscoe Western Art's Museum in San Antonio...

it's as good as that...

and if you have not seen it...

next time you go there...

it's about 4 blocks from the Menger Hotel...

easy walking distance...

a full scale size replica of the entire Alamo compound...

with well over 1,000 King & Country Soldados and Alamo defenders...

it's one of those things with so many points of interest that you have to look at it for an hour to see it all...

and again...

they don't allow pictures either...

which I really don't understand...

one picture...
just one...
not dozens...
but just one to whet your appetite...
would be good publicity to draw people...

 

[mikemiller1955]

here are some pics of the K&C's Alamo diorama at the Briscoe Museum in San Antonio...

it's pretty freakin cool...

 

[mikemiller1955]

K&C Alamo in San Antonio...

 

[mikemiller1955]

K&C Alamo diorama at Briscoe Museum in San Antonio...

 

[mikemiller1955]

okay...

well I recant...

I found all these pics...

not on the museum's website...

but on Briscoe's Facebook...

but you gotta dig to find them...

 

[TomNT]

Have to agree Mike, it's an incredible dio with awesome detail and I bet it would look even better when viewing in person. You are a lucky bloke to be living close by.

Tom

 

[El Pippo]

This is VERY impressive.

Thx for posting th epics

 

[GICOP]

Hi Michael

Many thanks for these pictures and the promise of more to come from the new Battle of San Jacinto display when it is finished.

Colonel Sam Floca sent me a great book last Christmas titled "THE DAY OF SAN JACINTO", one of Sams ancestors was involved in the battle :salute::

All the best

Martyn

 

[wwiibuff]

Thanks Mike for the info and pics.

The new dio of the Battle of San Jacinto sounds like it's going to be an impressive display. If I'm ever close to Galveston, I'll have to drop in and take a look. Also, next time I'm in SA (hopefully this coming May) I'll have to take a look at Alamo dio.

 

[braddinpa]

Outstanding. Really like Civilians peaking out.