Hmm...as I go back over my replica liveries, trying to fix the problems, I suddenly recalled why I had decided to not strive for perfection when I first made them and just go for "close enough" and slap my own racing number on them: for a lot of liveries, it just isn't possible. Looking at you, Japan, with all your common-English-word-or-three-letter-abbreviation company and sponsor names! Also looking at you, JGTC and your ever changing car decals. You can find five pictures of a JGTC car from the same year and only two or three of them have the same decal arrangement. Aggravating. The internet is no help, because all the private websites that fans would have made to post pictures and information are gone now (thanks for that, geocities) and search engine results tend to be 27 pages of websites trying to sell me things, completely unrelated websites that contain a single typo that vaguely resembles your search criteria, or websites with a lot of specifications but only a single 150x200 slightly out of focus image of the car in question taken with a cheap disposable camera as it zipped by at a race.
And maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it's incredibly difficult to pin down what some of these decals show, especially those tiny ones at the bottom of the car door and occasionally behind the rear wheels. For example, on the Cwest Razo silvia there's (sometimes) a tiny little sticker that says something that looks like "SKY" in a nice font with what appears to be some sort of wings above it. Do you know how much time I wasted today trying to figure out that one decal? The answer is A LOT. And I never did figure it out.
Also why does no one ever take pictures of (relatively modern) race cars that show the roof? I know they're going for dynamic angles in their pictures, but when your picture angle is so low and weird and close that all you see is one of the bulbous, distorted corners of the car, it's not a good picture, aesthetically or referentially. Occasionally you might catch a glimpse of color on the roof, the image distorted by reflections or motion or even just out of focus. That sort of picture isn't any better than one taken thirty feet away on a twenty year old cell phone by a short person trying to hold it up above of the people around them. What about those weirdos like me who are trying to meticulously recreate a car's livery in a game, huh? What are we supposed to do with six square inches of in-focus car and twenty seven blurry smudges that might be decals?!
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tl;dr: figuring out tiny sponsor decals in foreign languages is infuriating and borderline impossible without an amazing source of high quality pictures which apparently doesn't exist.
Also, what does everyone think about driver names? They are often written in different styles, and are often difficult to see clearly unless someone took a professional picture of that particular part of the car at an auto show. Do any of yall who do replica liveries add them, or do you leave them out? Especially those instances where a particular car was driven by different people at different times so the driver name kept changing.