The Mini Art buildings are invaluable because they're specific to times and places, but the vacuform molding process just means sooooo much work. The joints never seem to fit, and the instructions are, well, primitive at best. I've built their Ukrainian city building and village building, and am taking a rest from further ones right now.
The kits, though, sure beat Verlinden. Bought their Italian farm ruin and it's basically some plaster cast parts that will require a lot of supplementing and clean-up.