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Anyone have much experience with these? I'd very much appreciate the feedback of someone who has worked with both.

the Brass Etchings from forge world are relatively inexpensive and the sheet has a lot of symbols on it.

The plastic ones look like they have a bit more detail and depth to them.

Well one piece of advice for brass stuff is that the corners can be really sharp. Pretty easy to gouge your fingers up messing around with them.

Brass etchings are mostly for making it look like you did awesome freehand work, since it basically provides 'lines' for you to color inside of. The plastic versions stick out farther and are like any other gubbin you glue to your stuff.

Yeah, that's about what I thought. The first time I saw them in use I actually asked the guy how he did such great freehand.

Another advantage of brass etched icons is that you can bend them to conform to a curved surface like a pauldron. The plastic/resin stuff can have more 'relief', which is nice, but it is hard to use on anything but a flat surface. The brass goes nicely on things like dreadnought leg armor and the like.

They are really complementary rather than competing options.