This Week on Trading Paints: December 19, 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 you’re spending all the holiday-gift budget on new sim racing hardware for yourself.
🗳️ Paint of the Year Voting Continues!
Round 3 of Paint of the Year voting ended today, leaving just eight finalists in the mix for Round 4, which starts Saturday. Who will win it all? Signed-in Trading Paints members can vote once in each round through the end of the year.
📊 Season 4 Stats Are Here
If you’re into numbers as much as we are, take a peek at our 2025 Season 4 stats round-up, which highlights the most popular paints, colors, artists, and plenty more.
🧑🎨 ICYMI: Shawn Magee in the Spotlight
In our latest Artist Spotlight, we heard from Shawn Magee from SMD Racing. In addition to a wide range of paint scheme art in the NASCAR world, Shawn’s also done work designing race-win trophies, a unique feather in his cap.
🎁 A Minor Paint Builder Update
We quietly released a small update to Paint Builder this week. This update fixes a few minor bugs and improves some compatibility for the new Number Layers feature.
New
- Added a “Refresh List” button to the My Uploads screen. This way, if you send a layer to Paint Builder via Number Builder, you can quickly reload your list of uploads without the need to reload the entire Paint Builder app.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where an error message appeared when attempting to clone a project.
- Fixed an issue where text layers were not loading reliably in Firefox.
- Fixed an issue where links were not styled properly in the What’s New display.
✨ New Verified Official Paint
Alpha Prime Racing Creative Director Ryan Pistana posted Brennan Poole’s 2026 Macc Door Systems paint he’ll race in the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series. It’s just as sharp and colorful as ever.
You can learn more about Ryan and his role at Alpha Prime Racing in his Artist Spotlight from last November on the Trading Paints Blog.
Teams, drivers, brands, and artists: want to give the verification mark to your official paints on Trading Paints? Let us know!
🏎️ Staff Picks
Here are some paints we’re enjoying this week — including some Greg Biffle tributes pouring in from the community.
Trading Paints
Trading Paints
Trading Paints
Trading Paints
Trading Paints
Trading Paints
Trading Paints
Trading Paints
Trading Paints
Trading Paints
Trading Paints
🔢 From the Number Showroom
We’re really enjoying what you’ve been sharing in the new Number Showroom, part of the new Number Builder update. Here are a few recent numbers that caught our eye.
Keep posting your numbers to the Number Showroom, and we’ll continue to share what we like!
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! 🏁
