The building everyone pictures as "the Alamo" is the mission church, and its most famous feature is younger than the battle. In 1836 the church was a roofless ruin, its walls broken and its facade squared off at the top; the graceful curved gable — the "hump" that makes the silhouette instantly recognizable — was added in 1850, when the US Army re-roofed the building for use as a supply depot. During the siege the church was the garrison's strongpoint and powder magazine, the sturdiest structure inside the compound, and it was here, in the last minutes of 6 March 1836, that some of the final defenders fell back to make their stand.

King & Country's "New Alamo Facade" is the latest of the firm's several sculpts of the front, measuring about 15½ inches wide by 9 high — the curved gable, the arched central doorway, the four columned niches with their saints, and the upper and lower windows, all rendered in deeply cut, weathered limestone texture. As a scenic piece it is built to be the backdrop everything else plays against. Line the Davey Crockett Set and Gallant Colonel Travis along its wall with Santa Anna's Laddermen coming at it, and the facade turns a shelf of figures into a full Alamo last-stand diorama.

Model: RTA092 / King & Country / 1/30 (60mm) scale / matte finish / scenic facade accessory, approx. 15½ inches wide × 9 inches high