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Original Nauvoo Temple Project: Day 5

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Another update on the Nauvoo Temple project. I feel like I am dragging myself across the line with this one. I have worked for the last day to do, and redo, and redo again, the attic and roof of the temple.

The research I am relying on for this model was originally compiled by architects and archaeologists who were researching the original temple in order to build the new one. They made fantastic discoveries, sometimes relying upon things like receipts for materials purchases. One of the interesting things I found from them was that the original temple had a white pine shingle roof, but that they were in the process of replacing that with a lead roof. They were able to determine some of the actual parts that had been replaced already, and those are reflected in this model.

I am in the process of making the tower, and will upload more images as the model finishes.

Early Roof and Attic Images

2005 Attic attempt. The roof-line showed in this and the following image comes from a couple of other individuals attempt at showing what the Temple originally looked like. Accounts I have read recently would indicate they are not correct.
This roofline with the deck area, while cool, proved to not be a correct representation of what the temple looked like.

New Commision, Part 3

Posted on by Brian Olson in Uncategorized

Well, Here is part 3. Some of you have probably already guessed what is coming. My version is a mix between the Messiah in The Temple group’s 3d recreation, and the BYU sponsored version created for the Virtual Scriptures app. So here is my model, and some detail photos, of Herod’s Temple, the temple at the time of Christ. It is not finished, but it is heavily researched, and as many of the details as could accurately be reproduced have been, with more on the way:

The newley unveiled Port-au-Prince Haiti Temple

Posted on by Brian Olson in Uncategorized

On Thursday of this week the Church unveiled the design for the Port-au-Prince Haiti Temple when they announced the groundbreaking for 28 October 2017. Of course I jumped right in.

The official render is set at such an angle that you can’t really see the side, so much of my model is pulled from guesswork. There is a clue as to the length of the temple. On the left side, at the back edge of the grass area, you can see a faint sidewalk that apparently runs around the back side of the temple. Using that clue, I chose to make my model about the same size as The Gila Valley Temple. There is a very good chance I am completely wrong about that. Time will tell.

I am going to add textures and render this out to a very short video, then we will see how bad my guess is as the actual temple starts to take shape.