I'll be back!

 

...but in the meantime, here are a couple of shots of the two ultimate terminators, the T-800 and the T-1000, produced and crafted by Hot Toys with painstaking detail. I love T2 and it's layers of storytelling, the story of a boy and his faithful protector, the duel between two iconic archetypes, and the struggle of a woman against a fate that haunts her.

Action figures have come a long way from the plastic toys i've collected here and there since i was a kid. The Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece terminators have some of the best sculpts and proportion for any collectible figure i've seen, with a ton of weapons, spare outfits and other items to fully recreate the scenes seen in the movies.

Of course, what I geeked out about in the movies from the start was the very terrifying, and very conceivably real killer robot underneath the menacing Arnie exterior. It's form just looked so... functional! This design has captured my imagination since i first saw it.

My photography skill is currently at Lvl 0... may need to spend my next experience points towards that a little bit. :-P.

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Scorpion Tank!

Scorpy. For lack of imagination.

Closeup of moss and pebbled surface.

Scorpy's home, with cave, cactus and Japanese contemplation pool.

Well, you can clearly see that the pictures are not from Halo so i'll just explain. I used to have a pet Malayan jungle scorpion. I assembled it a pretty nice tank too.

BugTank
For the tank, or as i prefer; terrarrium, nmrgh but it's so hard to spell.. so nah it's tank... i bought the following items:
1x glass aquarium with rounded front corners
1x bag small pebbles
1x bag medium pebbles
3x cacti of varying species
1x bag soil.

...and found the following items:
1x rock / cave roof
4-5x pieces of moss for decor

First, i needed a water dish. I also wanted it to look nice and natural. So i used a clear plastic container's top cover (mine is square and roughly 5in x 5in) as a dish.

Then i poured in the small pebbles to fill the bottom of the aquarium. Now the dish is hidden. I made a small pool side area for Scorpy using medium stones and then poured in the dirt and transplanted the cacti. I kept the dirt in a mound to the side so there was some layering to the terrain. Then i found some moss (growing on the side of certain trees) with lovely lichen leaves on it and sliced off a few pieces to transplant to the tank for a grassy finish. I also found a nice rock that made a nice cave once a hole was dug around one side and that provided Scorpy with shelter.