Hullian111

Sorry this is belated. I had no access to my computer, or even a minute's silence, as I was on my way home. On the morning of 7th of July 2005, London was bombed where it hurt most - it's transport system. 52 people were killed, and many more were injured. It has been twelve years since that date, and I decided it would be best to commemorate that as best as I could. Never forget 7/7. 52 died in 4 attacks. We won't give in!

Similar to New York and London taxi services, Metropolitan Taxis was set up in 1963 to go around and ferry citizens across Liberty City. Even though it was stuck in the middle of the diplomatic crisis which involved the 'borrowing' of the city and it's assets, the cab company powered on, buying fleet from America using friendly-faced businessmen to keep away from the British diplomatic crisis, and ferrying around passengers across the city with foul-mouthed Grecian attitudes. These are actually really satisfying to look at, IMO. The whole red and white thing - if there were templates for the vanilla taxis, I'd make these all over again.

The GLP even procured five RAF Hueys once the RAF had retired them following the 'borrowing' of USAF bases. These were repainted into the traditional GLP midnight blue, given the registration G-GLPD-H, and numbered from one to five. They still had renmants of the USAF liveries on them, but became the backbone of the GLP aerial division. Sorry for making a mess of your work, SkylineGTRFreak. I'm not too proud of this one, I just really like the Huey, and I wasn't good at GIMP back then.

Last year, upon the dawn of my modding career here (back when my first mod was a crappy ambulance mod around about this time, I deleted it), I made my own personal retextures for what you may know as the Greater Liberty Police, in which Britain 'borrowed' one corner of America. The GLP, not as you know it now, were based upon the Royal Hong Kong Police, and used a varied fleet of vehicles back in 1988. Of most importance is the 1978 Ford Fairmont, lifted from the Ukrainian GTA IV modding scene. Before I knew it, the Ford Fairmont became my favourite regular car. The Ukrainians really outdid themselves with the Fairmont - so much so, that it really appealed to me. It was boxy, it was charming, and oh my, the front end just looked so satisfying. However, when I played in-game with the Fairmont installed into POLICE1, TAXI1 and PREMIER, I screwed up the handling lines, meaning it flipped all over the place. I loved it. I kept that in. Having passed a year since I got into texture modding, with school inadvertently teaching me how to use .GIMP, I wanted to celebrate what got me here today by getting the 'band' back together. I was proud of this then, and I am proud of this now. Maybe I'll release it, who knows.

The sister image to the previous post. If you didn't catch that, still, happy Canada Day, from the original Humberside region.

Happy Canada Day, and happy 150th anniversary of Canada to all those Canadian LCPDFRers out there! I could be one of those in the near future...I hope. With thanks to PieRGud, TheCanadianDream, (other popular Canadians here), the RCMP, of course, and last but not least, JaiTheGamer58. Have a great rest of the day, everyone. Wish I could take part myself.