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I've been challenged to build the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. I've made some progress on the main wall, but the side towers are a bit difficult. Can I get some tips on how to make the dark slit in the middle and the decorative piece above each window?
Here's a picture of what I'm trying to build:
Here's what I've done so far (just imagine it all in gray)
First off, I'm gonna suggest you pop the columns out and use octogonal 2x2 bricks for the tower columns. Enhancing these details is an easy way to convey the architecture of the building:
For the slit, I'll propose a SNOT assembly with vertical plates. There are several ways to achieve this, but since I can see some 1x1 plates with thick ring, here's a possible assembly (including a jumper plate):
The assembly rests one brick below the window baseline, and the jumper plate makes it possible to align it properly. You'll need some internal scaffolding, though.
Here's a view from the back to illustrate this alignment:
If you prefer the slit to be dark instead of see-thru, you can use a 1x3 black plate.
And, of course, remember that this is not the only way of building a SNOT assembly for the slit - I'm sure you can make alternative arrangements that should be easy to hide inside the tower.
I'm glad you've found an acceptable solution already. As IvanSanchez points our there are multiple ways to build such a solution.
To me the slits seem to resemble the narrow windows for firing arrows in the current (as of November 2022) Lion King's castle set, so I looked at how those were constructed.
Reading the instruction (which can be found here on the LEGO website), the first time one of these slit windows is built is in steps 77-79, and consists of two tiles (e.g. FLAT TILE 1x3, Design ID: 63864), oriented vertically on either side of the window; each supported by "BRICK 1X1X1 2/3, W/ VERT. KNOBS" (Design ID: 32952).
