This Week on Trading Paints: April 25, 2025
News and updates from the world of Trading Paints from the past week.

Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world while we’re celebrating our programmer extraordinaire Shawn Brant’s birthday. 🎉
🎁 What’s New
We’ve brought back our Beta program for Trading Paints Downloader for testing some new features before they’re released to the public. If you want to help us test out new stuff (like faster downloads!) and track down bugs, feel free to check out the Downloader Beta.
Two new shirts featuring the new Trading Paints brand visuals have landed in the Trading Paints Store. We take great pride in our shirts, in the material, fit, and print — just ask anybody who owns one. Quantities are limited!
👀 Coming Soon
Our new Artist Spotlight drops Thursday — and you may have heard of this former Paint of the Year winner!
🌟 Fresh Official Paints
Some new Verified Official Paints landed in the Showroom recently.





🏎️ Staff Picks
Team Trading Paints is digging these paints from the community this week.






(Yes, Patrick works here, but he’s got a knack for painting retro sportscars on new iRacing cars.)
🏆 Paint of the Week
Painter Daniel Kranefuss posted this intricate Precision Blue Acura ARX-06 GTP, which caught the eye of Community Manager Patrick for this week’s Paint of the Week.







Precision Blue Acura ARX-06 GTP by Daniel Kranefuss. Photos from Josh Chin.
What did you think of This Week on Trading Paints? Let us know on Instagram and Bluesky — and don’t forget to tag us when you share your paints! 🏁