2 more Interceptor schemes and new plates

Matt Lyon suggested a Hong Kong Police Force variant of the Battenburg livery, and I threw in a Swedish variant while I was at it.

Accordingly, I’ve updated the Department of Motor Vehicles page with new license plate sheets for Sweden and Hong Kong.

14 thoughts on “2 more Interceptor schemes and new plates

  1. Topo Solitario

    Maybe it is stealing you a little time but… if you make a "Guardia Civil" spanish scheme… you'll surely GET A HIT on spanish customers.

    In spain the "Guardia Civil" (civilian guard) is a quite distinctive law enforcement corp… founded in 1844 is one of the oldest police departments in the whole world… it has its own references in movies, books and comics… the usual motto is "Β‘Alto a la Guardia Civil!" (Stand sitll for the civilian guard!).

    You can see the curreng vehicle scheme here:
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hwB-u4xhPmM/TBnL-WmCyvI/AAAAAAAAIcE/tL2dE5O9y0g/s1600/guardia-civil-no-multas-huelga-knga.jpg

    The corps shield is this:
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4M0ogv9zVCs/SbkpMXB5x0I/AAAAAAAAATA/C1G-_fHKIzw/s400/Escudo+Guardia+Civil+2.jpg

    And here you can see a video that how important is the "guardia civil" in spanish culture:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_WgTYY5OQk

    It is "typical" the small moustache (the one that Franco, the spanish dictator used)and the quite distinctive hat, the "tricornio" (three-horned hat).

    I'm totally serious, if you want to score a hit in spanish players… go for the "Benemerita" scheme! (Benemerita is the other name of the corps, it means "with well regarded merits").

    Thank you in advance!!! πŸ™‚

  2. Paraplegic Racehorse

    Now having looked a little closer at the labelling and such… isn't the word "police" or "policia" or whatever usually written backwards if placed on the front glacis of the vehicle so that it can be read in rear-view mirrors? Or are you assuming cameras, which wouldn't cause that little visual distortion, instead of mirrors?

  3. Christopher Roe

    There aren't going to be any more schemes added–there are already almost 30 of them in the final package.

    There are 8 blue ones with different unit/shop numbers, 8 black/white ones with different unit/shop numbers, 4 Battenburg variants (UK, Sweden, Hong Kong, and a Garda version), 5 blue/silver European variants (each of them says "Police" in different languages, including Spanish), and 4 unmarked versions.

    There are thousands of different police schemes in the US alone, and I could only pick one, so I went with the most iconic of them all: the classic black/white scheme.

    The only reason there are several non-American schemes is because the constituent countries of the EU don't really see themselves as "states" in the EU in the same way that, say, California or Texas consider themselves part of the United States, and there's no one iconic European police scheme that works everywhere.

    This required me to subdivide the EU into the UK and mainland Europe. Mainland Europe got the blue-over-silver version because it looked the sharpest, with markings in 5 different languages. That left the main users of Battenburg livery–the UK, Republic of Ireland, and Sweden. I threw in the Hong Kong version because Matt suggested it, it was genre-appropriate, and there are a few kanji markings on parts of Streets of Titan.

    However, the main schemes in this package are actually the blue and unmarked ones. All the rest of them are basically just bonus content that I did mainly for fun. It's time to put this product to bed and move on to the next model. πŸ™‚

  4. Solospirit

    Just thinking about this, and what would be cool to go with it…An updated chapparal…with the jet pods and done in police and civi colours might be fun. I am really enjoying how these are coming together as a set…but are still different enough to not get samy…:)

  5. Solospirit

    I knew I had seen something like the Brio's before!…lol…There is a definate family relationship in their geometry πŸ™‚ If You dont want to do one as a Hoverbike,I think I can 'bash one together with Brio parts quite nicely πŸ™‚

  6. Vermin King

    Once these are out, I trust that with your skills, you can kitbash your own. I'm sure you will.

    While you are at it, could you do a Cole Camp, Missouri version, Mr. Gun?

  7. Topo Solitario

    So… talking about kitbash… we're reaching a good poing, that is:

    Mr.Ebbles, will you please release two more schemes? The first one should be a clean white (only texture, no dirt, no background, no scoring lines, only shadows and bolts) and the second one a "scoring line" only scheme?

    With that, we, the kitbashers, will be able to work at ease :p

  8. Christopher Roe

    That won't work–if white is the base color for that clean map you're talking about, you'll lose all highlights because the only blend mode that'll work will be Multiply, which ignores white. The result won't look identical to the original.

    Likewise, the layer setup I use is too complicated to just flatten into one "magic scheme" that people can modify. We're talking about layer groups inside layer groups, and merging those into single layers isn't really an option. Layer groups also aren't really supported by most third party applications that I know of, which is why I stopped selling editable PDFs in 2006 after my texturing style changed.

    I'll look into ways to make kitbashing easy, but I can't promise anything.

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