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Hiho,

I worked on a variety of hills with different layouts and design.

What you have so far looks already like a good basis. Others gave you already very good advise, so I just add two other ideas:

You can use woodfiller and apply it generously to the rock face. After it is dry you can carve it and run a steel brush over it to depict stratifications. As you cna see I just used whatever pieces of XPS I still had around and combined them to a pleasing result.



Bark also works very well for some kinds of stone:



This one may be already a bit too naturalistic for your needs. You can not place a whole unit on it easily, but I wanted something dramatic .

Obviously you can also go for a more stepped design:



This one I made with a cutter. I don't think it looks too realistic, but unit placement is super easy.

Finally, if you want to place trees etc. on your hill I recommend to integrate some steel tacks:



Then you can place trees that have a magnet in the bottom on the hill:





I wrote a tutorial on the magnetised hills, it may come in handy for your own endeavors:

http://wp.me/p49oPQ-F1