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Welcome to the Emergency Vehicle Challenge. Your task is to draw three emergency vehicles. Please read the requirements as well as the Challenge Rules before posting a submission. This challenge was based on a suggestion in the Future Challenge Ideas/Suggestions thread. If you have ideas of your own for a future challenge, consider sharing them there. Do not be afraid to make a suggestion that has already been made. It reveals that multiple people are interested in a particular topic.

Design Requirements

1. Your submission must depict three fictional land vehicles employed by emergency services.
2. One vehicle should be associated with a police force, another with a fire department, and the third with an emergency medical service.
3. The three vehicles should be shown in the service of a single country and contemporaneous.

Challenge Rules

1. Each participant may submit one image showing all three vehicles, or three images each depicting a different vehicle.
2. The image(s) must be an FD template modified to include the participant’s vehicles and, optionally, crew figures on or within the vehicles and/or one of the following for each vehicle: unit insignia, manufacturer logo, national flag. Other elements, including data sheets and scenic elements, are not permitted. If you have specifications and blocks of text, please include them as text in your post and not in the image itself.
3. No more than three views of a single vehicle are allowed.
4. If two or three views are included, they must depict the same individual vehicle in the same paint schemes, markings, and configuration.
5. All art must be in FD scale and conform to the same drawing and shading rules as official Shipbucket styles.
6. A textual description accompanying each submission is permitted, but not necessary.
7. Non-serious entries, or entries substantially deviate from the challenge requirements, are not allowed.
8. Off-topic posts will be reported to the relevant authorities.

This challenge will run until Sunday the 14th of April 2024, ending at 23:59 UTC-12 (International Date Line West).
A countdown timer can be found at this link.

A poll will be held after this date to select a winner. When it opens, please provide honest and meaningful scores for each entry. Responses which grant maximum scores to a select group of entries, and minimum scores to all other entries, will be deleted. Members of the community who manipulate the results in such a fashion may also be subject to a permanent ban. Scores will be allocated in two categories, each with a scale of 1 to 10:

• Drawing Quality - The overall quality of the drawing. One might consider detailing, shading, and accuracy.
• Design Quality -The quality of the design presented, irrespective of drawing quality. One could consider feasibility, practicality, and realism.

Colonial Motors Corporation Sentinel Police Pursuit Vehicle - City of Manchester Police Department

Based on the popular CMC Sentinel sedan, the Sentinel PPV is widely used by New England's law enforcement departments both on a local and regional level. In PPV configuration, it is equipped with a 6L V8 engine producing 390 horsepower. It is also equipped with Automatic License Plate Recognition systems (mounted on the trunk lid) and VHF radios for communication with land and air-based units.



Freightliner M2 106 Mobile Investigation Unit - Vermont Fire Marshal

Built on a Freightliner truck platform imported from Cascadia, the MIU is a fully-functional command center and lab designed for on-scene investigation of fires. It is equipped with a slide-out section to increase internal volume, as well as a roof-mounted spotlight array for illuminating the site of a fire.



Knox Embark - New England Antarctic Survey

A license-produced version of the Volkswagen Amarok pickup truck, the Knox Embark was produced in Rhode Island from 2010 to 2014. This vehicle, a 2010 model, was purchased by the New England Antarctic survey and converted to run on tracks for use at Research Station "Hero" on Anvers Island. It is assigned to the station's rescue department and is crewed by emergency medical technicians who are specially trained in polar rescue techniques. Two such vehicles are operated by the station, with a replacement expected in the next 10 years.

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Had a lot more fun with this challenge than I expected, and I'm really happy with what I ended up with.

Alternate drawings (not included in entry): viewtopic.php?f=27&t=10858&p=211216#p211216

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Panelbucket - Aircraft Avionics and Instrument Panels in 15px=1cm: http://shipbucket.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=10389
Clyde's Eagles - Cessna Aircraft since 1945: http://shipbucket.com/forums/viewtopic. ... 7&p=204669
Im Schatten des Adlers - An Alternate History Timeline: http://shipbucket.com/wiki/index.php/Ca ... des_Adlers

At 8:46 am on September 11th, 2001, Battalion 1 Chief Joe Pefiefer was conducting a routine inspection for a gas leak. Incidentally joining Battalion 1 was French-American filmmaker Jules Naudet who, along with his brother, had been in the process of producing a documentary on the F.D.N.Y. With no warning, the men of Battalion 1 hear the unmistakable sounds of what is a low-flying jet aircraft, the sounds of a jet are not uncommon in New York City, however this was a plane flying through buildings, only hundreds of feet above the crowded New York skyline. Confused, the men of Battalion 1 looked above to see a commercial airliner aim and crash into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

With an understandable "Oh shit!" from the firefighters, they immediately went into action. F.D.N.Y. mobilized. Within minutes the first apparatus had arrived on scene, together they would be joined by a battalion-sized force of 750 firefighters and over 300 emergency vehicles that would be dispatched to the World Trade Center. As the leadership for the department began to assemble and create a plan of action, another commercial airliner struck. This time it was the South Tower that was impacted. Undaunted F.D.N.Y. only expanded its operations further. Within half an hour the North Tower, South Tower, as well as the 800-room hotel between the two, World Trade Center 3, had active rescue operations underway with more resources pouring into the city.

At 9:30 am the first F.D.N.Y. firefighter would be killed when Daniel Suhr, arriving with Engine 216, would be killed when a jumper from the North Tower impacted him on his head, killing him instantly.

While one of the largest rescue operations ever conducted by any fire department in history, there was little new when you boiled it down for F.D.N.Y. Various companies arrived into the lobbies and command posts in the buildings they were assigned to, were given orders, and marched into the floors above them into the unknown. No one refused the order to ascend, though some firemen did hug their comrades before going up, but they were resolute and climbed into danger regardless.

The command teams on the ground were of the opinion that they had some time to rescue the trapped civilians above the impact sites. The goal was a single avenue for escape in each building. This, along with ascending the over 70 plus floors however was not an easy task. In both buildings, teams had to traverse up the stairs as the elevators had stopped working, however in the South Tower Battalion 7 Chief Orio Palmer had managed to fix a freight elevator which brought him and members of Ladder 15 to the 41st floor, halfway the South Tower's impact zone. From there Palmer, an avid marathon runner, began to ascend the stairs at roughly a flight per minute. Like the other firefighters, Palmer had on him some 70 pounds of bunker gear as he ran up the stairs. Along the way he encountered Marshal Ronald Bucca, a former Green Beret and Vietnam vet, and the two would climb the stairs together.

Orio and Bucca would make it up to the impact zone on the 78th floor. Upon arriving Orio immediately assessed his scene, informed dispatch of numerous civilian fatalities, as well as began to plan with Ladder 15 on how to attack the fires presented before him. A minute later the South Tower would collapse.

With the collapse of the South Tower, the still operating command structure began to order the string of teams located up and down the North Tower to evacuate. However many of these firefighters outright refused or did not hear the order due to a break in communications that also came.

Along with evacuating the North Tower, efforts were immediately organized to begin rescuing trapping civilians and firefights in the rubble of the South Tower, whose radio chatter began to fill the air. Chief of Department Peter J. Ganci went to the South Tower to directly supervise the efforts himself. About half an hour would pass and the North Tower would then collapse.

Multiple entire companies would be lost with the collapse, including Ladder 3, Ladder 105, Ladder 21, Ladder 7, Ladder 25, Rescue 3, Squad 41 to name a few.

After about 100 minutes of struggle, F.D.N.Y. would lose 343 of the 750 personnel that had been dispatched. Of the 23 battalion chiefs who arrived, only 4 would survive. With other leadership killed, Chief Ganci would also be killed during the collapse of the North Tower. Additionally 91 F.D.N.Y. vehicles would be crushed or damaged so much they'd be written off. After the collapse of the North Tower, an eerie calm would come over the disaster site. Radios were silent, only broken by the calls from dispatch asking for any leadership to respond, to which, for a period of time, none could. Once order had generally been restored, rescue efforts began, and after a period of time rescue turned to recovery.

While the local fire teams had lost almost half of their personnel, it was only a 3% loss throughout the entire force. Response times increased only a single minute as well from 4.5 to 5.5 minutes. In the time since, an additional 343 firefighters have died since from illnesses related to the 9/11 attacks.



Ladder Company 3 was dispatched to the WTC following the attacks loaded with both night and day shifts, some 11 firemen in total. Arriving at the North Tower, Fire Captain Patrick John Brown and his men would begin to climb up the stairs to the impact zone which started on the 93rd floor. At 0921 hours on the 35th floor Captain Brown radioed what was to be his last known recorded words. After finishing up a report to dispatch, he finished it with;

"This is 3 Truck and we're still heading up!"

Captain Brown, along with the 10 other firemen of Ladder 3, would all be killed when the North Tower collapsed. His remains were identified some months later in December and, in accordance with his wishes, his ashes would be spread throughout Central Park.

Ladder 3's fire apparatus would be crushed with the North Tower fell, the cab being ripped off of it. It would however not be the end for the 1994 fire engine, and instead it would be later preserved at the 9/11 memorial as a grim monument to the firemen of Ladder 3 as well as all the firefighters of F.D.N.Y. who perished that day.



Paramedic Unit 311 was one of many ambulances that responded to the WTC and would be damaged after. Later it would be written off.



Unit 2733 shows up in photographs of the time after the collapse of the towers and represents the period of rescue to that of recovery, as well as representing the overlooked NYPD response to 9/11.

Oh its an AU so these are all fake. Its the Freedom Fighters timeline.

The newest firefighting vehicle in the Canadian empires arsenal is a very heavy duty, multi-purpose machine built on the chassis of the leopard 1. This was done as it was deemed less expensive to convert into a HAZMAT vehicle then a new purpose built machine. Due to its flexibility and suprisingly large internal space once the new fixed superstructure was built, it has also been used in airports, as well as in some cases for forest fires due to its excellent off-road capability. It also can be used as a command center, and a drone platform, due to the large amount of space inside (although these are secondary roles). Primarily they serve city firefighters as HAZMAT machines, while the airport operated runs are focused on jet fuel fires.

With Australia getting rid of its MC3 trucks, rural ambulance services in Canada began snapping up the large vehicles and began converting them to mass casualty ambulances. While their top speed is not particularly fantastic, a new engine allowed them to operate at the speeds of all current ambulances. However, what it can do is carry up to 5 patients at once, and has enough space for a ECMO, on top of all standard ambulance gear. This means that fewer ambulances are needed, especially to mass-casualty events such as car crashes or protests, saving crews and machines. They are rare, but the MC3 is still being introduced and so will soon become more commonplace, although not in cities where their large size makes them a liability.

The Repressor is a new vehicle, a modification of the armies Rhinocerous APC, meant to be used to bust riots. With gas grenade launchers, a sonic weapon, water cannons, a variant of the Canal defence-light fitted to blind protesters (especially at night), it is well equipped to deal with most protests. It carries 6x M5 crowd control munitions, should the vehicle become surrounded, and it can carry up to 8 men, plus its four man crew, although usually it carries less. Its plow is useful for crowd control, and the mesh armour is excellent at stopping molotov cocktails. These vehicles are rare, with less then 100 being built so far, although there are enough provincial, national, and military police that want them that more are being built.

Austin 1500 Admiral

The Austin 1500 Admiral entered production in 1969 and the first police car conversions based on the 1500 Admiral Super with a 74hp engine entered service in 1971. By 1975 they were a fairly common sight as typical 'Panda Cars'.



British Leyland Loadmaster Ambulance

When Leyland began designing a new commercial van for the 1970s, the National Health Service requested a standardised ambulance and the result was a variant of the new Loadmaster which entered service in 1974. It had novel front-wheel drive and ambulances were also equipped with improved air suspension.


British Leyland Supertender ST1

The Supertender was designed at the request of several County fire brigades that required a larger tender to deal with larger fires, especially those Counties that had large industrial units within their areas or power stations and other large establishments. The ST1 was capable of carrying ten firemen and had large water or foam tanks with high-capacity pumps as well as ladders. The first entered service in 1972.

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English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

Emergency Vehicles of Waimarama
Waimarama was one of New Holland's poorest and least populated provinces. It was also rugged, encompassing the Central Highlands and the Waimarama River watershed. These conditions placed the burden of emergency response on poorly funded rural services. James Rata and the fifth Labour Government reinvigorated Waimarama's emergency services in the early 1980s. Old vehicles, worn and unreliable, were replaced at the general government's expense and a 300 new emergency service positions were funded. The drawing below illustrates three types acquired during this period, before Elizabeth Norton and the Reform government ended the programme in 1984. In general, Waimarama's emergency vehicles were smaller and more mobile than their 'big city' counterparts. Many roads were unpaved and inaccessible to larger urban emergency vehicles, especially in foul weather.



National Motor Industries Tramper
The Tramper was a product of changing economic policy and market conditions in New Holland. National Motor Industries had produced the diminutive Trekker since 1966, but the future of its flagship product was in doubt by 1979. It had escaped taxes and tariffs as 'agricultural equipment', and could undercut competitors like the Land Rover or Land Cruiser. That all changed with the Iranian Revolution and the 1979 oil crisis. One last act of David Hunter's outgoing conservative government was to eliminate the regulations that had protected the Trekker, the intent being to drive down the cost of assembled vehicles at a time when high oil prices were turning people away from New Holland's automotive industry. With a level playing field, the Trekker could not compete. Despite its agricultural status, it was a poor off-road vehicle. The Trekker also lacked the modern conveniences of international competitors. If National Motor Industries was to survive, a new model was clearly needed.

Arriving in 1983, the Tramper was a leap forward for National Motor Industries. Unlike the Trekker, it was a true off-road vehicle with four-wheel drive and large tyres offering improved mobility. Christopher Black, the lead designer, also introduced attractive modern styling which contrasted starkly with the austere construction of the Trekker. The new model proved popular enough, with regular commercial orders supplemented by a military contract to replace Austin Gipsy. For service in the hinterland, a batch was purchased by the Waimarama Police Service. These Trampers were fitted with emergency lights, a siren, and several accoutrements not visible from he outside. Like many New Holland police vehicles of the period, they had a simple white scheme with blue lettering.

Toyota Capra
Widely regarded as a failure by Toyota and its critics, the Capra was a recreational vehicle in the shape of a station wagon. The rear half of the vehicle was designed to open and support a tent-like structure in which a small family could sleep. New Holland seemed like a natural market for the Capra. It was a country with expansive outdoors spaces and robust camping traditions. 300 were assembled domestically between 1977 and 1979. Unfortunately, sales proved less than satisfactory. Holidaymakers preferred ordinary tents and caravans over the mysterious Capra. Leonard Laidlaw Limited, a provider of inexpensive emergency vehicle conversions, purchased many of the Capras languishing in New Holland car yards and developed a standard ambulance modification. It resembled earlier panel van ambulances, but was more spacious and could accommodate more equipment. While neither four-wheel drive nor off-road, the vehicle's origins as a recreational vehicle enabled greater mobility in rural areas than the van and truck derived ambulances then entering service in New Holland's cities. Waimarama Ambulance purchased a number of Capra ambulances, opting to paint them white with silver and red high-visibility stripes.

Forcett-Glen 3TO
Manufactured by New Holland's stalwart truck manufacturer, the Forcett-Glen 3TO was an off-road truck which appeared in 1981. Offered in 4x4 and 6x6 configurations, the 3TO was designed to replace ageing vehicles like the CCKW soldiering on in the wop-wops. If you were an optimist, it could accommodate a three ton payload. Naturally, its capacity was influenced by exact configuration and prevailing surface conditions. Forcett-Glenn also offered firefighting versions of the 3TO, recognising the need for such vehicles in remote areas which were otherwise inaccessible. From 1982, the 3TO became the Waimarama Rural Fire Service's standard fire truck. It was painted yellow, as opposed to the red or orange often seen in urban areas, and had white and red high-visibility markings.

Emergency Vehicles of the Sam-il Republic

I don't have a lore to them, mostly just wanted to check how quickly I could do them (4 hours - hoped for less ), and am also curious how LOW the "fancy style brigade" will score it on "Drawing Quality". :>
Of course, they aren't very creative entries. Fire engine is face-lifted Star 20, ambulance is face-lifted Nysa N59 with front part modeled after some 1950s British van and only the police car is largely "fresh" design, though I used FSO Warszawa as a template (though with extended wheelbase and styling is more after Mercedes "Adenauer" and BMW 501). Hope You'll like them regardless.

The Shintari National Space Development Center's Crisis Management Division (CMD) is responsible for handling all emergency situations that happen at the center.
Shown are a selection of vehicles from the 3 Sub-departments that fall under the CMD. The first is one of the Space Center Police Department's Lynx Model-4T Tactical Skid-loaders, as equipped with an Armored Approach Platform (AAP). The Model-4T is a specialized tactical vehicle designed for approaching, breaching, and assaulting armed assailants. The AAP is intended to allow a team of SWAT officers to safely approach an armed suspect.The second vehicle is Fire-Rescue Service's Special Incident Response Vehicle-Nuclear (SIRV-N), nicknamed the "Fiddler Crab". The SIRV is a Rad-Hardened vehicle designed to respond to accidents involving nuclear powered launch vehicles. The last vehicle is a Utili-Med MUTV, a UTV-based Ambulance. The MUTV is used by the Medical Support Staff to respond to low-priority medical incidents at the Center's Visitor Complex and Assembly Facilities. It's small size allows it traverse the pedestrian heavy visitor center grounds and cramped factory interiors to allow medical staff to quickly arrive on scene to render first aide. For more serious, but non-critical injuries, it can also be used for transport of patients to either the visitor first-aid station or the center's medical clinic.