Rotten Shale Hilltop
This piece is intended to serve two purposes. First, as the name implies, it allows you to model an entire hill (9 inches by 5 inches at the base, 3 inches high) without having to patch together a bunch of individual pieces. As a stand-alone, it stands up nicely all by itself, but you may want to support it on the inside with plaster cloth, foam-in-a-can like Great Stuff, or even simple wads of paper.
But many of our customers slice it up and use the pieces along with other Rubber Rocks to model the transition from a near-vertical rock cut into a gentle hillside above the cut. In shale outcrops, this transition is often not a simple line on the ground: Natural weathering often eats away the shale unevenly, producing a lot of interesting detail where the rock disappears back into the overlying soil.
This piece is intended to serve two purposes. First, as the name implies, it allows you to model an entire hill (9 inches by 5 inches at the base, 3 inches high) without having to patch together a bunch of individual pieces. As a stand-alone, it stands up nicely all by itself, but you may want to support it on the inside with plaster cloth, foam-in-a-can like Great Stuff, or even simple wads of paper.
But many of our customers slice it up and use the pieces along with other Rubber Rocks to model the transition from a near-vertical rock cut into a gentle hillside above the cut. In shale outcrops, this transition is often not a simple line on the ground: Natural weathering often eats away the shale unevenly, producing a lot of interesting detail where the rock disappears back into the overlying soil.
This piece is intended to serve two purposes. First, as the name implies, it allows you to model an entire hill (9 inches by 5 inches at the base, 3 inches high) without having to patch together a bunch of individual pieces. As a stand-alone, it stands up nicely all by itself, but you may want to support it on the inside with plaster cloth, foam-in-a-can like Great Stuff, or even simple wads of paper.
But many of our customers slice it up and use the pieces along with other Rubber Rocks to model the transition from a near-vertical rock cut into a gentle hillside above the cut. In shale outcrops, this transition is often not a simple line on the ground: Natural weathering often eats away the shale unevenly, producing a lot of interesting detail where the rock disappears back into the overlying soil.