This Week on Trading Paints: March 14, 2025
News and updates from the Trading Paints community in the past week.
Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world while you’re making laps in the new ARCA cars.
✨ What’s New
- The Season 2 iRacing build is live! We’re enjoying seeing everybody’s paints for the three new ARCA Menards Series cars — maybe you’re taking them out for a spin on iRacing’s newly-released Portland International Raceway?
- We’ve published a list of changes to cars for iRacing’s Season 2 build for painters. Spoiler alert: it’s mostly decal-related changes for oval-racing cars, and nothing that should break paints too much.
- Our Season 1 wrap-up is live, sharing the past 13 weeks by the numbers, including the most popular paints, painters, colors, and more.
- We’ve shared codes for free Trading Paints shirts for painters who participated in our latest Proving Grounds Challenge. Thanks for celebrating our 15th anniversary with us!
- We fixed a Paint Builder bug where the eyedropper tool wasn’t working following our latest release last week.
🗓️ Coming Soon
- Our new Trading Paints Brand mini-site will be live very soon. The site is designed to provide you with everything you need to use Trading Paints logos and colors in your projects. Think of it as sample brand guidelines when working with a client’s brand (or just a resource to enjoy if you’re logo and branding nerds like us).
🌟 Fresh Official Paints
Hot off the presses, some new Verified Official Paints have dropped on the Showroom this week.
🏆 Paint of the Week
Our Community Manager Patrick has selected this lovely black-and-white Porsche from Aiden H. as this week’s Paint of the Week. Stunning!
🏎️ Staff Picks
Many Showroom paints stood out to the Trading Paints team this week—here are a few. And, yes, we went heavy on the new ARCA cars; they’re occupying 19 of the top 20 Trending spots in the Showroom right now, after all.
“Nom nom!”
–Shawn, Development
🎉 Special Shoutout
We’re big fans of BIG EVIL Racing’s template enhancements for iRacing cars. Their team released templates this week for the new ARCA cars that add some intricacies that only the most eagle-eyed painters might appreciate.
@ARCA_Racing @iRacing Templates are FINALLY HERE!!!
— BIG EVIL Designs (@BIGEVILdesigns) March 13, 2025
Updates Include:
- LAYERED Contingencies
- Tape Layers
- Rivets
- Layered Parts
-Multiple Chevrolet/Holden Decal Packs (courtesy of @DriveThrough_ & @JSRacing61 )
More updates planned in the future!https://t.co/CMF4HzLicM pic.twitter.com/y8dIbMUiKY
A small update has been uploaded for all 3 ARCA templates.
— BIG EVIL Designs (@BIGEVILdesigns) March 13, 2025
Featuring a added detail layer @KensethFan17_20 put together for the Mustang.
Contigs also adjusted slightly (spacing + raster layers to lower software load)
Download: https://t.co/CMF4HzLicM https://t.co/7NtftHU6cF pic.twitter.com/vJZvh07Bbh
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