Real rocks, your experience?

I mark their outline and carve out a hole in the foam of my phony mountain, apply adhesive caulk and "plant" them. I try to reflect a strata tendency based on photos taken from near our mountain cottage. 

These are real.    (Sorry for the dusty water).

These scenes have a mixture of real rocks and carved styrofoam. All are painted and drybrushed to blend in with each other.

Jim

I was interested in this myself. I may pick up some pieces of slate from work and see how they look stacked together. Might be a cool way to mimick the rock formations I see when I visit the poconos.

Real Rocks work great!!!!!

I also use real rocks mixed in with my scenery. I'm always on the lookout for some unique rocks that I can blend in; when out west I picked up some 'red rocks' that I liked and added them to my scenery.

I have used the rock molds on many parts of my layout, but knew I couldn't get the effect I wanted on the water fall with them. I found these real rocks in a lot of sizes while hiking. I used Liquid nails for projects to glue them in place. I have tried to build as much of the scenery on my work bench as I could. It is much easier to "Landscape' the sides of the hills.

Well, they're pretty realistic.