This Week on Trading Paints: September 19, 2025
News and updates from the world of Trading Paints from the past week.
Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world while you’re admiring some Asian sports car racing liveries.
📊 Season 3 by the numbers
Our Season 3 statistical wrap-up is out, where we shared the top painters, popular paints, and even the top colors from the last iRacing season on Trading Paints. Collectively, over a million new paints were assigned in the last 13 weeks alone! Check out the full season recap.
#️⃣ More new Number Builder updates
Following last week’s big upgrade to Number Builder, which added a Showroom, gradients, remixing, and more, we released a second batch of updates Wednesday. The latest update adds member profile pages, a zoom-to-fit option, and a ton of improvements.
🎁 New: Upload categories in Paint Builder
If you’re a fan of organization, you’ll love this week’s update in Paint Builder. We added the ability to categorize or tag logos or layers you’ve uploaded so that it’s easy to find what you’re looking for, especially if your My Uploads list is growing as long as ours.
You can read about this week’s Paint Builder update, which also includes some performance improvements and bug fixes.
🧑🎨 ICYMI: Brendan Droppo in the spotlight
If you haven’t already checked it out, the latest in our Artist Spotlight Series focuses on Ontario, Canada’s Brendan Droppo, the designer of choice for the likes of Jimmie Johnson and LEGACY MOTOR CLUB. Read the full interview to learn how Brendan made his climb to become one of the foremost artists in the NASCAR world.
👀 Artists wanted!
We’re looking for artists, creators and designers to highlight in future editions of our monthly Artist Spotlight features. Do you know somebody in the racing world — virtual or not — deserving of some recognition? Let us know Instagram and Bluesky.
🌟 Fresh Official Paints
Some new Verified Official Paints have landed in the Showroom this week.
🏎️ Staff Picks
Enjoy some of what we’re enjoying this week.
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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.
Be sure to post your numbers to the new Number Showroom, and we’ll continue to share what we like!
🏆 Paint of the Week
The Paint of the Week, as always selected by Patrick, our Community Manager, is this creative and colorful Ford Mustang GT4 — My Little Mustang, from Joshua JD Miller.
My Little Mustang GT4 Ford Mustang GT4 by Joshua JD Miller. 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! 🏁
