This Week on Trading Paints: June 19, 2026
News and updates from the world of Trading Paints from the past week while you’re starting Season 3 off with hope.
Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world.
🏁 New Proving Grounds Challenge: Trading Paints × Hunt the Front World 100
We’ve partnered with our friends at Hunt the Front to give a Trading Paints painter a shot at their big break.
Design a Dirt Late Model paint from now until June 27th and post it to the Showroom with #ProvingGrounds somewhere in the description. Hunt the Front will select their favorite and hire them to work with the team, designing the actual car’s World 100 wrap, racing at Eldora Speedway this September.
Learn more about the latest Proving Grounds Challenge or check out some of the entries shared by the community so far.
🎨 A small Paint Builder update
We released another minor update to Paint Builder this week. Here’s what changed.
Improved
- For Finish (spec map) options on layer groups, there’s now an Inherit option. When Inherit is selected, the Finish value set on the group will not override the values of the individual layers within the group.
- Updated the appearance of the transformer handles, including changing their size when a layer is particularly small or large, or when zoomed in.
- Added a Wait cursor that appears when an intensive option is processing.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where, if a layer group consisted of multiple Line/Curved Line shapes, the transformer would appear in the wrong place if selecting one of the Line shapes within the group.
- Fixed occasional off-canvas placement when using Clone or Mirror Clone on a layer group.
🏎️ More fake Paint Builder sponsors are here
We’ve added 20 more fictional sponsors to Paint Builder, joining our collection of hundreds.
Select logos to put on your cars from not-very-real brands, like Tin Roof BBQ Sauce, Pyro Spark Plugs, Onyx Performance Coatings, and lots more.
👀 Coming Soon: Season 2 Recap
Our popular season-ending wrap-up is dropping Saturday morning where we share stats from the past iRacing season, including most popular paints, top painters, and common colors. Stay tuned to the blog, follow along on Instagram, or check out past season wrap-ups.
🧑🎨 ICYMI: Jordan Tiegs in the Spotlight
The subject of this month’s Artist Spotlight is Jordan Tiegs, a virtual-to-reality designer who now boasts over 100 designs that have made it to the track in NASCAR — including Garrett Smithley’s memorable Microsoft Clippy car.
✨ New Verified Official Paints
Some shiny new official paints landed in the Showroom this week.
Teams, drivers, brands, and artists: want to give the verification mark to your official paints on Trading Paints? Let us know!
🏎️ Staff Picks
These are just a few paints we’re enjoying right now.
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🔢 From the Number Showroom
Here are some new custom numbers from the Number Showroom that caught our eye.
Keep posting your numbers from Number Builder, and we’ll continue to share what we like!
🏆 Paint of the Week
Community Manager Patrick selected this Richard Maltais-designed NASCAR Canada Series fictional, creatively adapted to the new Euro NASCAR V8GP, as this week’s Paint of the Week.
(Fictional) Couche-Tard NASCAR Canada for Euro NASCAR EURO NASCAR V8GP by Richard Maltais. Images from Julian Madore.
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! 🏁
