This Week on Trading Paints: November 14, 2025

Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world while you’re salivating over the November 2025 iRacing development update.

🧑‍🎨 ICYMI: Michael Miceli a.k.a. RaceArtist in the spotlight

November’s Artist Spotlight features Michael Miceli (known around the internet as RaceArtist) a designer who’s spent decades designing some of the most creative and memorable paint schemes on the NASCAR circuit — including what’s become his specialty, Halloween-themed cars, complete with unique character illustrations. We learned more about Michael’s story, his process, and some advice.

🧑‍💻 Web development note about local network access

In some browsers like Google Chrome on Windows, you may notice a new prompt when browsing the Trading Paints website or Paint Builder asking for local network access.

Enabling this option, which we recommend, allows Trading Paints Downloader to continue communicating with the website seamlessly. When using Paint Builder, this is especially important so you can preview your designs using Sim Preview.

This behavior has been the default and in place on tradingpaints.com for a very long time, but starting with Google Chrome 142, you’ll now see a prompt.

🌟 Fresh Official Paint

There’s a new Verified Official Paint 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

Here’s a small sampling of what our team is digging right now.

#83 Brian Vickers 2007 Team Red Bull Early Season by Joshua Chin - Trading Paints

Credit to BIG EVIL Racing for the template and numbers

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Formula 4 - Arizona Green Tea by Dennis Van Der Meeren - Trading Paints

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Blaze Wagner Legend! by Cody G Williams - Trading Paints

Blaze Wagner Legend! Follow me for more paints @cody_williams_design on Instagram, and Facebook!

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Viollapurplemetallic GT3R by Enrique V. - Trading Paints

The second most popular livery I’ve made for the Porsche Cup now available for the GT3R for those who like matching cars on both categories. Go ahead... Send it!

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Anaglyph AMG Mercedes-AMG GT4 by Jason C Lin - Trading Paints

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#60 Boris Said 2007 Sobe No Fear Ford Ford Fusion by Christian Budd - Trading Paints

CREDITS--- *Ford Template - Liam Brotherton, Davin Cornelius & Jonathan Palmieri* --- *Numbers - Bigevilracing.com* Some Contingencies: SNG* - Boris Said raced this car in the 2007 Daytona 500. He would also participate in the Budweiser shootout, and the spring Talladega race. Rain would force a DNQ at Daytona in the summer, and the car was subsequently retired as the COT would be used going forward.

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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.

Number 81 by Jeff Slaughter | 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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Amazing Stylish Number by Craig Patton2 | 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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Grand Speedy Number by Samuel Malone | 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 red white black by Jeff Goddard | 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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Divine Excellent Number by Samuel Malone | 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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76 blue orange by Gage Knox | 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

This week’s Paint of the Week, selected by our Community Manager, Patrick, is a bold and stylish dirt modified from Jacob Freeman.

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! 🏁