diff --git a/hw/straylight/default.nix b/hw/straylight/default.nix
index 3e8c3ab..1376ec7 100644
--- a/hw/straylight/default.nix
+++ b/hw/straylight/default.nix
@@ -50,12 +50,20 @@ let
     hf-repo = deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
     dedup-cache-models = true
 
-    ; Ornith 1.5 9B, refusal-ablated (junafinity / mradermacher GGUF). Multimodal:
-    ; llama-server pulls mmproj with --hf-repo. Q4_K_M is the recommended quant.
+    ; Ornith 1.5 9B, refusal-ablated (junafinity / mradermacher GGUF). Dense
+    ; text/coding model — not a VLM; the shipped mmproj does not add vision.
     [ornith-1.5-9b-uncensored]
     hf-repo = mradermacher/Ornith-1.5-9B-uncensored-GGUF:Q4_K_M
     dedup-cache-models = true
 
+    ; Qwen3-VL-8B Instruct, refusal-ablated (prithivMLmods v2 / mradermacher).
+    ; Dedicated VLM in the same size class as Ornith 1.5 9B. Explicit mmproj-url
+    ; because router-mode --hf-repo does not attach the projector on its own.
+    [qwen3-vl-8b-abliterated]
+    hf-repo = mradermacher/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v2.0-GGUF:Q4_K_M
+    mmproj-url = https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v2.0-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v2.0.mmproj-f16.gguf
+    dedup-cache-models = true
+
     ; Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B MoE (official GGUF). ~3B active, multimodal; mmproj
     ; comes with --hf-repo. Q4_K_M is ~22 GB.
     [ornith-1.5-35b-a3b]