This Week on Trading Paints: July 4, 2025

News and updates from the world of Trading Paints from the past week.

This Week on Trading Paints: July 4, 2025

Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world while you’re enjoying a hot dog.

💡July Artist Spotlight: Emily Butler Lue

Co-owner of LUE Creative, Emily Butler Lue, inspired the community by taking a side hustle and turning it into a full-time role in 2023 by doing what she loves at the intersection of motorsports and high-level creative. Read about Emily’s journey, her work, and advice to up-and-coming artists in this month’s Artist Spotlight.

🎮 A new Downloader Beta is available

We’ve released a new beta version of the Trading Paints Downloader featuring some enhancements around hosted racing sessions with AI Collections. Give version AI3 a try if you want to help us test out these updates and bug fixes, available on the Downloader Beta page.

🌟 Fresh Official Paints

Check out the latest Verified Official Paints posted this week in the Showroom.

2025 Denny Hamlin Kings Hawaiian #11 NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen Toyota Camry from Brantley Roden for Joe Gibbs Racing
2025 Ty Gibbs Sonic Grillos #54 NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen Toyota Camry from Brantley Roden for Joe Gibbs Racing
2025 Christopher Bell Craftsman CMN #20 NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen Toyota Camry from Brantley Roden for Joe Gibbs Racing
2025 Jack Perkins Shaw and Partners #19 NASCAR XFINITY Toyota Supra from Brantley Roden for Joe Gibbs Racing
2025 Brad Perez #45 Sendero Provisions Co. NASCAR XFINITY Chevrolet from Ryan Pistana for Alpha Prime Racing
2025 Brennan Poole #44 Toxic Waste NASCAR XFINITY Chevrolet from Ryan Pistana for Alpha Prime Racing

🏎️ Staff Picks

Here’s a little bit of what caught the eye of the Trading Paints team this week.

2003 Dale Earnhardt Jr DMP Car SS Version by Kevin King - Trading Paints
2003 Dale Earnhardt Jr DMP Car SS Version
FERRARI 296 GT3 ITALIAN SPEC by Nathan Careye - Trading Paints
Inspired by some of the paint i found and remix with what i like
2003 Ford Taurus - Playstation 2 by Cade Mckee - Trading Paints
A Fictional Playstation 2 car based on the Oreca Viper and Dallara Le Mans cars of the era. Thanks Big Evil Designs for his layers that are used on this project.
Menards Chevrolet Monte Carlo Gen4 v2 2025 TP by Doyle Lowrance - Trading Paints
Custom Raven Grafixx Menard’s Chevy Monte Carlo Gen4 Speedway version with custom spec mapping. NO NUMBER ON CAR SIM STAMPED.
Jeff Gordon 2005 Star Wars Pepsi Monte Carlo by Aly Osman - Trading Paints
UNLIMITED POWAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Geoff Bodine 1998 Philips by Evan Pienta - Trading Paints

🏆 Paint of the Week

Community Manager Patrick selected Ugo Degani’s Ravenwest Motorsport Aston Martin — a take on the classic from Race Driver: GRID — as this week’s Paint of the Week.


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