BTW, maybe someone makes those huge centipedes you have over there. BLA!

Trying to get that metallic green those beetles have would be something else. Looks like their right up your alley G.

I remember a visible cricket some eons back but for the life of me I can't remember who produced it.

The movie Starship Troopers came to mind.

When I was small, I craved those Bandai bug kits with the wind-up motors.  My favs were the praying mantis and the diving beetle.  I remember my diving beetle "swimming" in the kitchen sink!  Now how it was supposed to NOT corrode the clockwind motor, I'll never know.

There have been animal kits in the past, like Revell's endangered species series, Heller's really bad bugs, and even kits of mounted fish trophies (I saw those at Tokyu Hands department store in Shibuya).  But nothing recent.  I built a fiddler crab in college, out of sprue, sheet plastic, styrofoam and... spackle!  I think realistic animal kits might be just the cure for Bf-109-itis.  Not cartoon caricature approximations, but scientifically accurate models.

Ahhh Those will give me nightmares

Lol, I saw some of these over on HLJ and thought they'd make a great Bert I. Gordan style giant critter '50s SF/horror movie diorama! 

Thanks for posting, Real! Had no idea these were coming available. They are really quite cool!