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This Week on Trading Paints: May 8, 2026

News and updates from the world of Trading Paints from the past week while you’re getting into the Indy spirit.

Steve Luvender

Steve Luvender

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This Week on Trading Paints: May 8, 2026

Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world.

🧑‍🎨 ICYMI: Jason Dakins in the Spotlight

For this month’s Artist Spotlight, we caught up with Jason Dakins, a highly active painter in the community. Jason sharpened his skills through sim racing, developing into a career designing for iconic teams in both sports cars and now oval racing.

Artist Spotlight: Jason Dakins

🎨 A small Paint Builder grouped layers update

Following last week’s release that added curved lines, gradients, and custom fonts to Paint Builder, we released another small update Monday. In addition to a couple of post-launch cleanup bug fixes, you can now drag layers in and out of groups from the Layers list.

Dustin (development) and team Valuable SL1de GmbH finished 15th in the Nürburgring 24 Special Event. (Editor’s note: Please ignore the rocker panel that includes the “don’t do this” examples from the Trading Paints Brand page. For shame.)

✨ New Verified Official Paints

Take a look at the latest official paints landing in the Showroom this week.

OFFICIAL #69 Foxxtecca x MBM Motorsports Dystany Spurlock NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Toyota Tundra TRD PRO from Jason Dakins for MBM Motorsports
2026 WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps — #69 WRT BMW M4 GT3 EVO from Ghost Rider Squad
OFFICIAL McCann Racing x Technica Mining Porsche 911 992.2 GT3-R GT World Challenge America PRO from Jason Dakins for McCann Racing
2026 Chase Briscoe Mobil 1 Toyota Camry from Brantley Roden on behalf of Joe Gibbs Racing
2026 Christopher Bell Coofandy Toyota Camry from Brantley Roden on behalf of Joe Gibbs Racing

Teams, drivers, brands, and artists: want to give the verification mark to your official paints on Trading Paints? Let us know!

🏎️ Staff Picks

These paints are a few that caught the attention of the Trading Paints team this week (in a good way).

Rampage NASCAR Truck Series RAM by Scott Mitton - Trading Paints
RAM is Back in the NASCAR Truck Series, and with it all of it’s alter-egos. Ferocity Graphica: Raceday presents the Rampage RAM. This scheme is ready to rampage the truck series. I hope all of the Dodge and RAM fans enjoy these new trucks! Shout-Out to Big Evil Designs for some of the template upgrades!
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Pcup Max Verstappen Miami inspired by Ons Lucske - Trading Paints
This livery of this Porsche Cup car is inspired by the Miami 2026 helmet of Max Verstappen. It features bold pink and purple tones with tropical elements like palm silhouettes, reflecting the vibrant Miami style. The design blends dynamic graphics with the car’s shape, creating a striking and energetic look on track. If you want your own custom livery, feel free to contact me on discord: Lucske. Enjoy the livery!
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NASCAR Cafe Monte Carlo by Vincent Giacalone - Trading Paints
Based on the branded diecasts available at NASCAR Cafe locations in the late 1990s. Only did a sim-stamped version because the real cars had a bajillion number variants anyway.
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Crowdstrike Racing by Tyler Tucker - Trading Paints
I made this based off the Crowdstrike Racing Oreca LMP2 from IMSA and WEC, along with their GT Mercedes livery.
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GUNK Gen4 by Steve Buhala - Trading Paints
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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.

Main number by Andrii Zhupanov | 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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Milkman by Craig G. | 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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Wonderful Divine Number by Jayden Browder | 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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New Pleasant Number by Douglas Nelson3 | 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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27 by Wes Graham | 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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78 by Tyler Tucker | 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

Community Manager Patrick selected this “Ford MooStang” from Andy M Hudson as this week’s Paint of the Week. Enjoy it and all of its cow-moo-flage glory (Andy’s words, not ours).

Ford MooStang - Cow_Moo_Flage edition Ford Mustang GT3 from Andy M Hudson. Images from Julian Madore.

📢 Community Shoutout: Patryk A. has reached 1,000 followers!

We’d like to give a nod to Toronto’s Patryk A. on reaching 1,000 followers on Trading Paints. Patryk has posted some lovely creative paints over the years, and is also known for working with AO Racing to bring their popular Rexy (and family) liveries to the virtual world. Congratulations, Patryk!

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! 🏁

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