Giant Mecha Beetle

60 year old man built a giant mecha kabuto beetle over the course of 11 years. Has a cockpit and can also be controlled from behind.
The beetle is 11 meters long, 9.5 meters wide and weights 15 tonnes.

Thanks to vincent for the link!

After this, he's gonna be hired at the military to build gundams, then airforce will hire him to create macross, followed by a secret government agency to build evas...