Completed December 9, 2012, after more than a month of engineering and tinkering. The finished figure employs six rare-earth magnets to work the legs – see the pics of the armature – and three more in the belly and the keeper button to allow it to hunker down and ride on a shoulder.

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