Car painting updates for iRacing 2025 Season 2 build
iRacing has released some new content and tweaked some cars. Here’s what you need to know for painting in 2025 Season 2.
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This Week on Trading Paints: March 7, 2025
Updates from the colorful world of Trading Paints in the past week.
Paint Builder Update Notes: March 7, 2025
A new release of Paint Builder adds layer grouping, performance improvements, and other new features.
Paint Builder was temporarily down for maintenance
Paint Builder is down because we’re making some updates that are taking longer than expected. Sorry!
Artist Spotlight: Aaron Burnette
Meet Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing’s Creative Director, who shares his journey to NASCAR from his humble roots as a vinyl cutter in Kentucky.
This Week on Trading Paints: February 28, 2025
Community updates from the Trading Paints world in the past week.
Recap: Proving Grounds Challenge #2 – Trading Paints 15th Anniversary
We’re sharing some of our favorite entries from our second Proving Grounds Challenge, celebrating the 15th anniversary of Trading Paints.
Proving Grounds Challenge #2: Trading Paints 15th Anniversary
Put your skills to the test with our latest Proving Grounds Challenge celebrating our new look.
Celebrating a milestone: 15 years of Trading Paints
Founder Steve Luvender reflects on 15 years of Trading Paints, sharing memories from the journey and a look at what’s ahead, including some fresh visual updates to the brand.
Artist Spotlight: Landon Milz
One of the youngest, established designers in NASCAR today, Chicago’s Landon Milz has begun to find his footing in what looks to be a fruitful career in motorsport design.
Artist Spotlight: Kyle Williams
Kyle Williams, Graphic Designer at The Decal Source, shared his thoughts on his impressive career and insights into his process.
The results are in: the 2024 Paint of the Year is crowned
Jesse Abraham’s Neonizm Holographic Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R was voted 2024 Paint of the Year by the Trading Paints community.
Season Recap
Recap: 2024 Season 4 by the numbers
Another iRacing season is in the books — a 14-week schedule this time around. As always, we’ve enjoyed seeing creative passion in the community thrive with cars and painters both new and old. We’ve crunched some numbers over the past season, because who doesn’t love some stats? (Thanks
Artist Spotlight
Artist Spotlight: Michael Carey
Meet Michael Carey, Digital Media Manager for JR Motorsports, whose unique position in the industry has made him a multidisciplinary talent with plenty of experience in a short amount of time — not to mention his tireless efforts to highlight fellow artists in the community.
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New Number Builder updates have arrived!
We’ve released some new updates to Number Builder, our free tool for creating your own custom number styles. A new look and feel makes it easier to create your perfect number style, whether you’re working from your PC or playing around on your phone. (It’s not weird
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New: Official Paints section of the Showroom
We’ve added a new, much-requested section on the Trading Paints Showroom for Verified Official paints. Verified Official paints are submissions published in the Showroom — usually representations of cars racing in real-world series — that are liveries provided by a race team, sponsor, driver, artist, series, or team representative in an
Artist Spotlight
Artist Spotlight: Ryan Pistana
Alpha Prime Racing’s Creative Director, Ryan Pistana, shared his journey from console-game paint booths to designing some of the most memorable and eye-catching paints in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.
5 tips for Showroom success
We’re sharing some tips to help you reach the Trending page in the Trading Paints Showroom.
Artist Spotlight
Artist Spotlight: Kyle Sykes
We caught up with Kyle Sykes, Creative Director for Trackhouse Racing, to ask him about his path from posting concept paint schemes on Instagram to leading design for one of NASCAR’s most innovative teams. Here’s what he had to say about motorsports design and his creative journey.
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30 more fake brands join Paint Builder
There’s something we love about fake brands in sim racing games — names nobody’s heard of, appearing on cars made up of pixels. No fears of disappointing your paying sponsors when you cause the first-turn-first-lap pileup. No concerns about losing paid representation when you tweet that pineapple belongs on
Season Recap
Recap: 2024 Season 3 by the numbers
Week 13 is winding down, and that’s a wrap on 2024 Season 3. It’s been a lot of fun to watch the painting community thrive and continue to create some of the coolest custom paints we’ve seen in iRacing, from experienced artists to newcomers alike. We’ve
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Trading Paints is now on Instagram!
Sure, we’re a little late to the party, but Trading Paints is now on Instagram. Follow us at @tradingpaints, where we'll showcase custom paints from the community, share tips, tricks and creative inspiration, and highlight the creators that make up our wonderful community. View this post on
Artist Spotlight
Artist Spotlight: Ryan Daley
In the second installment of our Artist Spotlight series, we asked graphic designer and popular Trading Paints painter Ryan Daley eight questions about the world of motorsports design from his perspective.
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A limited run of Trading Paints shirts is now available
Four styles of Trading Paints shirts are now available and ready for your closet.