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I haven't installed any yet, but I will be using some stone as well. My concern is nto with weight but with getting the most out of what I have: I am going to try to split my chunks into thinner "slabs" with hammer and chisel. This way, I'll get several usable faces out of each specimen. I suspect that one could use a concrete drill bit to sink some holes along the "fault line" you wi***o create, the way real quarries do. Then, when you smash it the fracture occurs between these holes. I'm not speaking from experience yet, though. <br /> <br />When I have used real rock in the past, I have used much smaller pieces, which I set in amongst my plaster hand-carved rockwork. I model in N-scale, so a 2" stone is a significant rockface for me. I am of an opinion, too, that it looks better when you set multiple small pieces in amongst plaster slopes, which you cover with ground foam normally; this represents the way soil collects on the flatter surfaces and then allows vegetation to grow. Only very new (man-made) rock cuts are clean, bare stone; even out west, the desert plants will find places to grow on a cliffside.
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