I'm looking at doing an 'inside job' - i.e. a bit of a diorama / storage shelf (a la Mel) / something to model 'finescale'.  This is going to involve some buildings, or at least walls, and so on.  I was wondering what, if any experience people had had with the many variants of embossed plastic building sheets; and/or the 1:24 'real' brick slips that are intended for dolls houses and you often see on eBay.

My own experience has so far been limited to the Brandbright plastic sheets, which are pretty good if you get a good one - the quality of the embossing can be a bit variable, but they're relatively cheap.

Back2bay6 have larger, square, white sheets are what seems a high price - are they worth it?

I've no feel at all for the 'real brick' slips, other than an innate suspicion that they're probably too good to be true; and you need more than you think (even if you already know you need more than you think).

My main subject surfaces tend to be brick and corrugated iron (roofs).  I'm familiar with the baked-bean-tin approach; but you've not seen the area I need to cover...  and I'm not sure the global climate could cope with the consequences of sourcing that many empty cans.

I'm interested both from the point of view of the diorama modelling (which is where I'm looking for 'quality' / precise products) but also thinking of outdoors where durability scores over precision; but where (in my case anyway) some of the buildings are enormous and the consequential cost a cause of some hesitation.

All comments, observations and experience welcome.

Cheeseminer

Note for those perturbed by the "fine..." word - I'm using it verrrry loosely to mean 'looks good at close inspection', not 'accurate' ! :-)