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1. Why is slate so popular (ie: price? easy to work with?)
2. Why slate over other rock materials?
3. (or maybe 2.1) What would be the advantage (if any) of using slate over finding some stones out side and crushing them with a hammer.

Also, any recommendations for using pumice or those other textured paste materials from Vallejo to blend rocks/cork in the base? It just may actually be my answer to using cork as it'll hold it together better, and more importantly, make it easier to blend the cork 'rocks' in as over time the cork seems to curl up and leav gaps between the base (especially when I decide to go back and add some to previously painted bases.

*Edit: just to give some reference these are the kinds of stones I had outside my house that I thought of using as a slate substitute (already some what crushed with a hammer)

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 WarlordEXE wrote:
1. Why is slate so popular (ie: price? easy to work with?)

Reasonably easy to find, and easy to work with.


2. Why slate over other rock materials?

Mostly the ease to work thing. Slate is soft enough to break, chip or carve it into the shape you want, can be drilled with a normal drill, and is slightly porous so takes glue well.


3. (or maybe 2.1) What would be the advantage (if any) of using slate over finding some stones out side and crushing them with a hammer.

See above.
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