Completed December 15, 2009, for a friend very fond of turtles. There's a full body and armature between the two plates of the shell. Most of the work was done the 14th, but I woke up in the morning and realized the upper shell looked like a spiderweb; tweezed off the brown stripes and tried again.

This turtle already has a home, but you can write to the Salamander if you’d like to discuss the creation of someone similar for yourself.