Well that's a lot better than I thought it was going to be, I was expecting everyone to say "you must model!" So now I go with confidence into working out how to do decent looking tile texture.

For the look of the thing, I would prefer to model 'em but I just know my compie would die, it's nice to know that I can spare myself the frustration of multiple crashing.

Thanks for your feedback, everyone, it is nice to have some guidance from people who know more than me