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the sun will be your biggest concern. it has it's way with bare plastic from day one. nobody knows when plastic will self destruct on it's own, so preservation is speculative no matter what you try. i do know if you keep it in a box stored away in a cool dark place, i can vouch for a 50 year minimum. i've seen the sun wreck plastic in a matter of weeks. if you paint your structures; the sun will work on the paint instead of the plastic, and just like the real thing when it needs repainting it will look like it. in real life house paints are in two categories: interior and exterior. interior dries harder, interfaces with humans better, and is prone to sun damage (but it's inside). exterior house paint, never really dries and stays relatively flexible so it can handle the expansion and contraction effects from the sun, and generally just stay tough. this is something to consider if you go the paint route. any paint will work better than no paint. of those clear uv resistant coatings: don't expect them to work. they do help, but without a comprehensive maintenance program of reapplication, the sun will get ahead of you and win. have you considered just performing reasonable measures with reasonable maintenance and watch them age into the ground while adding a new one occasionally to help illustrate the cycle of life? buying them cheap and landscaping a little shade here and there would be my solution to the issue.
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