This Week on Trading Paints: January 9, 2026

Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world while you’re getting ready to turn some laps in the iRacing ROAR.

🧑‍🎨 ICYMI: Davin Cornelius in the Spotlight

In our first Artist Spotlight of 2026, popular sim painter Davin Cornelius (a.k.a. DriveThrough Design) shared his journey from Need for Speed Carbon on PS2 to NASCAR Racing 2003 Season to iRacing to even creating on-track designs.

🎁 A Minor Paint Builder Update

We released a small update to Paint Builder this week.

Improved

• Fonts now show the text you’re inserting in the font selection dropdown menu, rather than a generic preview of the font name. This will provide a clearer and more accurate representation of how your text will look in each font instead of clicking through them one by one.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where Sim Preview wasn’t working on the Opera GX browser because it was expecting a Local Network Access prompt similar to other browsers. (Thanks to Kasey E. for reporting this issue.)

🏎️ Staff Picks

The Trading Paints team has been enjoying plenty of new paints in the Showroom. Here’s a handful.

The Starry Night Porsche 911 Cup (992.2) by Jasper De Jong - Trading Paints

Based around the famous painting ‘De Sterrennacht’ (The Starry Night) by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Features the painting itself on the car, and one of his self portraits (Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat) on the endplates.

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Color Splash by Paul-Christian Wolter - Trading Paints

Art in a frame is like an eagle in a bird cage

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2026 BMW F1 Livery Concept iR04 by Alex Schmurtz - Trading Paints

Inspired by the 2026 BMW F1 livery concept from Sean Bull. Carbon texture by Simon Ermisch.

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1970 Porsche Salzburg - Targa Florio - The Heart - Tribute - Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Car by Patryk A. - Trading Paints

Tribute livery to Hans Herrmann and Vic Elford’s #20 Porsche 908/03 Spyder raced and DNF’d at the 1970 Targa Florio with the Porsche Salzburg team. Part of a 4 car card set, the other 3 - Diamond, Spade, Club ran Gulf Oil livery and were recreated by GPX Racing for the GT3 R back in 2020 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the race. Please favorite the paint if you’re racing it. And you if you want to show further appreciation for these free paints: https://buymeacoffee.com/allroadsmaple Thank You.

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Bigfoot 4x4 2000 Dan Runte by Tyler Tucker - Trading Paints

Dan Runte’s Bigfoot livery from 2000.

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2026 TC Tuggers TC Topps TCR by Tyler King - Trading Paints

Proudly sponsored by TC Tuggers® — the only shirt with a knob, so you can pull it down when it gets trapped on your belly. Designed to never hurt your hand. Not worn ironically. They’re not like the Snuggie.

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Ford Mustang GT4 by Sivilaced AutoGraphix- S2000 Bomex Inspired by Joan Murgadella - Trading Paints

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The Biff by Blake Kelley - Trading Paints

In Memory of Greg Biffle. Thank you for helping the victims of Hurricane Helene.

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🔢 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.

ct00 by Scott Matthews4 | Number Builder

Create and share your own stylized car number graphics from your web browser with Number Builder by Trading Paints.

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42 Justin Whitney by Justyn Prevost | Number Builder

Create and share your own stylized car number graphics from your web browser with Number Builder by Trading Paints.

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44 by Patrick OToole | Number Builder

Create and share your own stylized car number graphics from your web browser with Number Builder by Trading Paints.

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88 orange by Cory Price | Number Builder

Create and share your own stylized car number graphics from your web browser with Number Builder by Trading Paints.

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matt custom 95 by Matthew Macdonald8 | Number Builder

Create and share your own stylized car number graphics from your web browser with Number Builder by Trading Paints.

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Keep posting your numbers to the Number Showroom, and we’ll continue to share what we like!

🏆 Paint of the Week

For the second Paint of the Week in 2026, Community Manager Patrick chose this colorful 1987 Ford Thunderbird from Jory Fleischauer that reimagined what Ryan Blaney’s No. 12 NASCAR Cup Series car might look like if we woke up and it was 1987. (Something, something, Stranger Things.)

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