Facts, Models, and Videos of Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The third and final installment of my planned virtual tours launched today, a full 12 hours earlier than I intended. Guess that’s what I get for not checking if I hit AM or PM.
This time, I have for you a tour of the Nauvoo Temple as it would have looked about the time the Saints Left Nauvoo, minus that whole winter part. Enjoy!
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Another project under works. I am hopeful that I will be able, in the near future, to find decent reference material for as many as the homes as possible . Additionally, I am hoping that more details on teh original temple might come to light.
In the mean time, here are some development images from my new Nauvoo City model, currently in progress.
The outside is not the only portion of the temple and grounds within this particular model. I am also working on the inside of the original Nauvoo Temple as well. Some artistic liberties have been taken to make the images more appealing. However, anytime information about the layout and design of the rooms in the interior was available, it was strictly adhered to.
I look forward to hopefully making the model larger and more accurate.
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.
The original Nauvoo Temple is mostly complete now. I have finished most of the modeling, still some small tweaks here and there. The big problem now is some of the textures that need fixing. I can fix the ones on the west end easily enough, but on the east end I have found 2 different styles for the center windows. That is kind of a major concern and is preventing me from completely finishing the model.
But there is now a bell in the tower, and a simple box to represent the clock mechanism. The exterior of the tower is fully finished now, unless I find more information that says otherwise.
The tower has peen put together in segments that allow me to show the rooms and segments within.
I’ve had a project come up that I have decided will take precedence over my other model efforts. At this point I hope to only need to work on it this week, then let the computer do the render next week while I get back to work on the normal models.
I am working on some resource material for the excellent channel Messages of Christ. I have previously worked with this channel before, creating unique renders for his Provo City Center, Sapporo, and Philadelphia videos. This time we are tackling a subject that has long interested both of us, and we have both done extensive research on, the original Nauvoo Temple
Here is the first render from the new project. Everything is accurate to the last known detail at this point, except for a water tank that stood to the right of the font against the wall that probably also served as some type of boiler. Research is still ongoing about that. Also missing are curtains that probably hung in the doorways of the rooms, but that is something we will probably leave out at this point.
