Working from the idea of my last post, I came up with a combination between silhouette 6-7, with the general idea of keeping the spherical main body of 6 and attach a surrounding chassis like 7
The first experiment of this was this rough sketch. I was massively inspired by Star wars, in particular by the Droid Starfighter of the Prequels and the TIE interceptor of the OT, both had the similar motif in design as what were were looking for.
However, after a discussion with Liam, we found this sort of design would make the drone too one-directional, as the position and shape of the beams around the body might make it look too "forward-oriented", where as Liam wanted something that feel more omni-directional. Therefore I decided to go back to the Saturn-ring type chassis, with a new source of inspiration coming from real military technology in the form of "spaced armour"
This concept first found popular use in WWII vehicles, where extra piece of metal sheets were fixed to the main body of tanks and armoured vehicles with the idea that it would detonate the warhead of coming rounds before it actually reach the main body, thereby reduce the penetrating potential of them and increase survivability. This concept later would evolve to the cage-armour such as below as well as ERA (explosive reactive armour - where the armour consists charged cartridges surrounding the armour and shoots and detonated warhead of coming round when they get close to the tank)
With that idea in mind, I came up with something similar to this concept of spaced armour, in the form of surround support beams that is attached to and slide along the ring chassis.
The shiftable beams means that it can move towards the specific direction of fire to block , as well making space for the visor of the drone to see through, and for the gadgets to pop out when returning fire. I think this brings a level of uniqueness as well as practicality to the function of the drone. As a bonus the little panels on the beams can be modified to something similar to ERA armour if the plot needed. Both Liam and I really like this idea due to its realistic and military feel, as well as its simplicity which would probably prove very helpful when it comes to modeling later on
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