Special Operations Battle Echelon (S.O.B.E) Mobile Suite for some futuristic paramilitary police duties. Model kit came from the Japanese Anime PATLABOR series, decided to paint something anew rather than its original model depiction. Anime (pronounced An-Ni-Me) is the Japanese contraction for Animation. Anime - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime

PATLABOR is animation series known collectively as MOBILE POLICE PATLABOR, with various depiction of MECHA (automated or human-controller robots) for rudimentary civil tasks. MOBILE SUITE is a term used in Japanese Anime to reference human-piloted giant robotic units for military purposes. Patlabor - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patlabor

Above SOBE Suite depicted in martial-art style combat form, left arm holding armor shield, right arm holding Panzerfaust anti-armor weapon. Rollover : 3/4 view of SOBE pose, I watched some old-style Chinese and Japanese martial art movies (ex. Jet Li, Kozure Okami, Michelle Yoeh) for ideas on model pose. Also practiced in the bathroom mirror for a masculine handsome pose. This was probably a overkill, but had fun going through the exercise. Kozure Okami - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_wolf_and_cub