There are certain builds that you go all out on, and this just happened to be one of them. I started around 10 PM(don't ask) and finished around 9PM the next day after basically building non-stop. I dug through all of my legos, scrounging for bricks, mostly grey ones though. I din't plan for the back wall to have those huge letters, but when I ran out of grey, it just came to me. If you're wondering about the name, the black and white checkerboard pattern is the symbol of ska music, which this whole MOC is really centered around. It's loosely based on the House of Blues, Dallas. Enjoy. Oh yeah and check out this link to see one of these for real: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09q6cUlDJ_k&ob=av2e