Honestly the only thing left to do is practice some water transfer decal skills with Micro Sol and then apply the Salamander legion crests to the aft armor slabs and some flavor markings/decals

Shown with a Lunar-class cruiser for scale :). Calling this project essentially finished for 2025

Last month on my work trip, I managed to pick up some really cool critters as a side quest to my actual job. This was the highlight and a first for me...a Jerusalem cricket! Chonky little tank was plowing through spider webs and literally marched right past me in the hanger so I put him outside.

Lol I basically spent a chunk of this year designing CAD and doing test renderings before picking up ~7000 bricks to build a 30k Salamanders battle barge, which will close out my 2025 rando project. Just a few more revisions and tweaks to the support stand and slab armor.

Look at this really pretty wild sailfin molly from a local creek!

Radiodont head

P. hoffmannseggii getting her exercise. They get substantially larger than this and always have resting angry face. I need to do a vid of the males with their long uropods :)

(My hands always look like they belong to a lich in handling vids as I don't want lotions or oils to hurt the critters)

A hardshell taco turns into a soft bean burrito.

G. portentosa, Madagascar hissing roach.

Trilobite reconstruction work in progress: Bellacartwrightia whiteleyi, with legs, gills, and antennae.

These sweethearts are Simandoa conserfariam and discovered only 20 years ago in a single cave system in Guinea.

Their habitat was destroyed by a mining company shortly thereafter and rendered extinct in the wild, save for some specimens saved by biologists. They can get the zoomies and squeak!

I have been pretty inactive the last few years with people I call friends and acquaintances due to inability to maintain connections with others and within myself, and hope to rekindle those connections, if people will are open to it :3

My old ass car is old enough to buy alcohol now, crazy. How long can I keep it running?

Idk what I'm doing so here is a clip of my dirt shrimp babies.

Cubaris sp 'rubber ducky'