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Alright it's done. Got out the proper camera to take a few pictures of it before it gets packed and shipped off to the guy I made it for. Few lessons from doing this custom work if anyone else want to do a similar thing:
First, Cricut is amazing even though its software sucks. For example the Nokian Tyres logos on the back are only 5mm (0,2 in) tall and still reasonably paintable on an irregular surface. Thorougly recommend getting one or something similar for decals.
Second, laser printer vinyl stickers are only really good for things that can be sectioned off. The numberplates on the sides, the bottles and even the small logos like Euro Shopper and the two shields look good enough even if they are too thick, but the three logos on the bonnet that are simply too small for the cricut don't look very nice and color matching wasn't possible. I printed 3 different sets with 3 different attempts of color matching and never got closer than this. Also the adhesion isn't great.
3: A trick I learned from a painter really fucking works. So take the white Olvi logo on the roof for instance, since the masking might not seal perfectly, you first spray the color beneath, this case black, to seal off the edges of the masking. Any leaking under the edge will be the same color so it's not visible. Then, the second layer, you now either go to the color you are planning on painting or an intermediate if coverage is shit (I used ghost grey in between the black and white) and you'll get crisp clean edges. Same technique used for all the painted logos and it seems to have done well.
4: Revell kits still suck even if they're made recently. The manual was stupid and didn't explain colors well so I used reference images, and the assembly methods of many things were insane. The headlight assembly is a snap-on-snap-on-snap assembly and it was wonky at best. Note that the front left wheel hovers, I can't find a way to fix that.
