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Giant, bipedal war machines are one of those traditional sci-fi staples that we just haven't seen yet. Where's my flying car? Where's my jet pack? Where's my Gundam? Well if politicians from Japan's Liberal Democratic Party have anything to say about it, we'll be catapulting into a sci-fi reality very soon. Two members, Tadamori Oshima and Bunmei Ibuki, are going to discuss the ins and outs of building a full-sized, working Gundam.

Philip Valdez made this wonderful steampunk mech, complete with an iron horse locomotive for a head and lovingly detailed valves and gears on the body. While the picture above makes it look like a MechWarrior-sized tower over his backyard, it's actually eleven inches tall, and made entirely from paper: Unlike many papercrafts, however, there are no wires, strings, or pieces of plastic to hold it together.