Review: Basecrafts assorted rocks

A collection of the stones that I was sent for review.

Right, Dave at Basecrafts sent me a load of stuff to review a fair few months back now. Thing is there's been a lot going on, and my reviews of his products have been significantly delayed (sorry Dave). I have used a few of the products he sent in various projects I've been working on, and I've also farmed some of the stuff out to other people I know, who actually might get to use them in projects of their own. That's rather than me actually just using the stuff and wasting them on meaningless projects just for review, I wanted to see how the various bits and pieces worked 'for real' if you will. Any way, I considered reviewing these all separately... but then I realised they were the same thing, just different colours. So I've decided to lump them all together as one review. Each stone type will get individual scores though...

Product Description

Right, simply put we're talking about various stone types in a plastic container. I'm not going to go into further details beyond that I think for this review as I don't think much more is needed. So what are the various stone types I've got to review?

The first rocks I have to review are the Light Green Crystal Rock. The rock contained isn't uniform and the package contains approximately 35g. It actually contain 36.27g... yeah I'm that anal I tested the weight!!!

Next up was the Blue Crystal Rock, which unsurprisingly shares some similarities with the Light Green variety... except it's blue. Obviously. This pack also has approximately 35g of Blue Crystal Rock in it, but we got short changed, it actually contained 34.98g. I know, terrible right. Strangely though it looks like there might actually be more Crystal in the Blue Crystal pack than the Green Crystal pack. Perhaps Blue Crystal is slightly lighter?

We move out of Cystal territory now and get the wonderful world of Red Glitter Rock. This is a very dark stone, probably Black or at the very least dark charcoal grey, with patches of red glitter all over it. Yeah tasteful right? I guess somebody has to need it for some basing purpose. The package said it contains 3g of red glitter rock, which when I read it I thought must have been wrong. But it seems that Red Glitter Rock is made out of thin air as the pack actually contained 3.2g.

The first rocks I was sent that could be could good 'old fashioned' rocks are these, the Dark Brown Rocks. They are exactly what they say they are, Dark Brown Rocks. The packaging says they contain 50g worth of rock, but yet again I must have hit the jackpot as they actually contained 53.76g. Result!!!

The final packet of rocks I received for reviewing was the Talus (rocks) Buff (mixed). Yeah I'm not so sure it's the snappiest of names either, but hey it's what they're called. This package is made up of the same sandy beige brown coloured rock, but it's size and shape varied massively from small little chips of rock, right up to large pieces. It's the most varied package I have for review. The pack contains 25g of rock pretty much dead on, which is exactly what the pack said it would contain.
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