ONCE UPON A TIME I HAD THE NOTION THAT IT would actually be simple and great to use a real granite slab as a base for a duck. How difficult could it be to drill a couple of holes through a rock for some leg wires? My bright idea resulted in four burned-up, $6.00-drill bits just to make one hole G inch deep. A little later, the realization set in that nothing really sticks to a real rock for very long. You can imagine how I quickly discovered the demand for using artificial rocks.

Artificial rocks solve all problems you may incur with attachments, drilling, gluing, size, and engineering. Whether you are creating a few riverbed pebbles or the Cabela mountain, the real key to success depends on your abilities at applying surface texture and painting techniques. Have you ever seen an artificial rock that was so good that you had to touch it to determine whether or not it was real? Well, move over Disney World because ...
 

...Continued in the Fall 2003 Issue of Breakthrough.

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