Name: UFO robot Grendizer
Year: 1975
Height: 30 meters
Pilot: Duke Fleed
Driving system: All the buttons and levers are on the seat of Duke Fleed.
Material: Gren (alien alloy)
Weapons: Hanjuryoku Storm, Space Thunder, Antigravity Storm, Screw crusher punch, Hand beam, Double Arken, Shoulder boomerang, Spin saucer, Spin drill, Melt shower.
Vehicle: In the first episodes Goldrake use only one vehicle, the Spacer, a huge flying UFO. Koji Kabuto drive his TFO. In the last episodes, there are also the Double Spacer, Marine Spacer to fight in the sea and another vehicle to fight in the underground ( I don't know the original name of these vehicle).
Friends: Duke Fleed, Koji Kabuto, Genzo Umon, Maria Grace Fleed, Hikaru Makiba, Dambei Makiba, Goro Makiba.
Enemies: Vega Star Union Army. Beast Disks Vega Beasts
Notes: Grendizer has been the first Japanese animation serie to be broadcast in Italy. The success was huge, every kid saw this serie. After this huge success Italian television was full of Japanese cartoon, especially cartoon about robots. In reality Grendizer was the third serie of Mazinga saga. But here in Italy no one knows it. Grendizer was the first, MazingaZ the second, and after them all the other robots.
The story of the serie is simple: Duke Fleed leave his planet destroyed by Vega. Duke reach Earth and decided to live here. Vega follow Duke and begin to attack the Earth. Duke driving Grendizer defend the Earth. Very simple story, isn't?

Techniques: Nothing special. Goldrake is a simple robot. I use polygons and subpatch at the same time. I added a few small details to the model ti achieve more realism.
What lacks: The head is not finished yet. It has no panels and no details.
My biggest problems: Nothing special. I had some problems trying to use "alien textures" fot the robot. After a few tries I prefer to use typical "jet plane" textures. You can see the subtle effect of panels and rivets on all the body of the robot.

Not ready yet