Patlabor Mobile Police force, 1988-1994 Japanese animation series from by which this Mecha model was derived from.

Sobe #1 Mobile Suit | UweM

Patlabor | Wiki

Illustration shown related to standard Patlabor police variant, which was built for UweM's Sobe #1 model.

Patlabor: The Movie | Wiki

Patlabor is a concatenation of "Patrol" and "Labor", but its Japanese title is "Kidou Keisatsu Patoreiba" (Mobile Police Patlabor). Mecha in this instance means Mechanical, not be confused with Spanish word "mecha" (fuse).

Mecha | Wiki

Photoshop spliced image of Patlabor mecha assisting Japanese traffic police & emergency rescue workers.

Patlabor (Japanese) | Toysdaily.com

Patlabor Shrine | Anime.com

BTW, there is also a Spanish word "mecha" meaning "fuse", but is often associated with American leftist Chicano fringe group in the West Coast called "Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán", by which their acronym is also "MEChA"

MEChA | Wiki

Patlabor anime clip, Japanese Kanji characters on shield reads "Kei Shi Choo" (Police Inspection Office.. or aka Police Headquarter)

Japanese Kanji | Wiki

Patlabor Trailer | YouTube.com

Patlabor 2: The Movie | Wiki

Patlabor live action ! | YoueTube.com

Where all modeling projects begin, parts on trees, grey-painted primed and ready for assembly.

3 Latex parts included for insulation between arms and legs, spray painted flat back. But flexible surface cracked paint job, hence parts were grey paint-primed again and assembled in-place.

Panzerfaust part in upper left was transferred to another Sobe #1 Mobile suit mecha model.

Model major body & weapon parts assembled, ready for puddy and sanding ops.

Walmart automotive "red" ceramic puddy used to fill in crevices, applied with either XACTO knife or small screw driver

Using automotive brand is cheaper and comes in lager squeeze tube contrasted with scale model-specific puddy (which costs a whole lot more)

Sobe #2 in action pose via its articulated joints