So yeah, remember that Armored Droid Carrier I started the thread with?
I decided to try and recreate it in the Vanilla LDD mode to see what kind of color scheme I could get away with...
...And since I was kind of iffy on my rack design actually working in real life, I decided to rebuild it as an IFV/Light Tank...
...Also, from looking at my new STAP, I thought, "Wouldn't this things top make a great machine-gun turret... Too bad you'd need to plunk nearly the whole build in just to make it work..."
Then it hit me:
"
Why shouldn't I put the whole STAP on there?"
Besides the obvious Scout manning the Turret STAP, the crew also consist of:
A Pilot in the forward compartment and a Gunner near the rear, both now having fancy red Holo-displays to see just what the hell they are doing...
But in case of emergencies...
A secret second Scout is stored between the two, in the event one of the crew is somehow incapacitated.
This picture also give you a good look at the Gunner's controls.
As you can see, the Turret is able to freely rotate 360 degrees, though this leaves it rather flimsily connected.
Of course...
It's not just a weapon emplacement, but a second, fully functional,
Lazor machine-gun equipped vehicle in it's own right!
Then there are the optional Blast Diffuser attachments...
These add-ons take the powerful anti-vehicle bolt fired by the main cannons and turn it into a devastating, field clearing wave of destruction.
Yes, this...
what ever it is will certainly provide plenty of tactical flexiblity (
if it ever gets bought and built).
Finally, with all the recent hub-bub with the Third Alliance (Which I sort of put Briktoid Automata in since I've got faction ideas for both sides of the Anti-Immortal war) and the oussum Microspace ships that have been constructed, I was inspired to take my Droid Quadfighter...
...Something I'll probably never end up making in reality, and...
adapt it.
Now if I'd only work on the "Conifer" class Heavy Dreadnought...