Why am I making another modular style building?

[Lego Otaku]

While waiting for parts to arrive and another $100 or so to get the rest of the parts I needed to build the hardware store, I was looking at a few old digital pictures and noticed a few really nice shot of a nearby downtown village that had many older building. It got me thinking if I could replicate the design in LEGO and before I realized it, I had lost about 5 hours:

Just the facade of second floor facing west. I still need to add north facing wall but it ended up about 96x32 sized modular. A triple wide modular... wow. I do know the history of the building. It used to be upscale department store over 100 years ago, it was 3 stories and yeah that wide. (picture above shows top 2 floors) After the department store went out of business, it went through many changes and eventually got split into 4 sections, it had ice cream shop, candy shop, nickle and dime (I still remember wanting things there!), and currently it's video rental, electronic recycling, and barber shop with one still empty. The upper floors were converted to apartments and it's still occupied

One of the detail I couldn't figure out how to do in LEGO is the slanted bricks:

Probably will skip those as it's too complex to try without breaking LEGO system.

Since it has ended up triple baseplate wide, I've decided to split it in 3 with connector pegs so it'd be easier to assemble, transport, etc. The connector system will not be LEGO standard as it'd be awkward the building were placed out of order.

Anyway the prelims file is at http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Lego-0taku/ldd/large_department.lxf

I'd have to scrounge up old picture at local museum to see what the first floor looked like back then. Right now it's got garrish awing and signs and it's really hard to see original facade or even where the original doors and windows were. Also to do the rest of the walls and add floors and roofs. All those crazy half brick offset I used to try and get decor to match closely to the real building.

PS please lock me in padded room if I feel like doing one of the building near downtown Oxford, MI (specifically, at intersection of Washington St and Burdick St) as the building have 45-degree walls and it would be rather difficult to build and furnish interior. If I build using the 45 degree bricks, window and door won't work without gap and snots. If I use hinge brick to get 45 degree wall that works with windows and doors, upper floor and roof wouldn't connect with the angled wall.

[Off the wall]

Well, maybe you're like me. I enjoy the modular line and one a year simply isn't enough for me. After using nine or so GEs to make one large GE and three THs to make one large TH, I had enough parts of all kinds left over to build a couple of three story MOC modulars. What I usually do on an MOC is start out with instruction book one of a regular modular and do significant modifications as I go along. I usually don't even need anything beyond instruction book one as I get so off track from the original TLG design.