Trading Paints

Explore the Showroom

Discover your perfect ride in the Showroom, home to hundreds of thousands of paints from our sim racing artist community. Race your favorite designs with one click, replacing the iRacing defaults.

Trading Paints Paint Builder UI screenshot

Design your own masterpiece

Create your own custom car paints with Paint Builder, our easy-to-use web app. Or, if you’re old-school, design and export liveries in your favorite software, like Photoshop, using iRacing templates.

Race in style

Whether you create your own custom paint or pick one from the Showroom, Trading Paints Downloader syncs with iRacing to update all car paints as you race.

Go Pro for even more.

Your Basic Trading Paints account is free with an iRacing membership, giving you access to the Showroom to race custom paints and upload your own creations. But, if you’re ready for more, Trading Paints Pro unlocks the full potential for racers and artists.

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Discover Trading Paints Pro

With Trading Paints Pro, you can:

Design your own custom paints with Paint Builder

Replace iRacing’s stamped numbers with Custom Number styles

Assign unique paints for night races

Apply a suit and helmet for every car

List yourself available for work in the Painters directory

Get your exclusive Pro badge

…and so much more.

Your painting portfolio

Trading Paints is the perfect home for your livery design portfolio. Post your original work to the Showroom, customize your public profile page, and start growing a following of your own.

Accept requests for custom work

As a listed artist in the Painters directory, you can mark yourself as available to accept incoming custom design requests from sim racers looking for their perfect paint.

Get recognized

Top trending paints in the Showroom each day are awarded, and our community managers love showcasing standout designs on social media and our blog. Get the attention your work deserves!

About the Company

For sim racers, by sim racers.

Trading Paints began in 2010 with a simple idea: build a central platform to share custom user-uploaded paints and enhance the iRacing experience.

What began as a passion project to serve up custom paints quickly grew into something much bigger: a worldwide community of sim racers and artists. Many have built their names, reputations, and even careers through showcasing their work on Trading Paints, supported by innovative tools designed for creators and artists of all skill levels.

We’re proudly 100% funded by Trading Paints Pro memberships: no big-money outside investors, just support from the community we serve. ♥

As the first and only platform to centralize a custom paint library, we remain committed to innovation and excellence. Over the years, our team has grown into a global group of dedicated developers, designers, and community managers who share your passion for great-looking race cars.

Our mission is to unleash the creativity and personality of sim racers everywhere.

Our Values: Our team’s guiding principles

We’re passionate about sim racing.

Trading Paints started as a passion project and a love for sim racing. We aim to capture this passion as racers in everything we do. We proudly use our own products, and we care as much as we do because we’re sim racers, too.

We build things that are refreshingly easy to use.

Our goal is to positively impact every sim racer, no matter their age, ability, or location. This starts by ensuring that everything we offer to our members is intuitive and designed with simplicity in mind.

Sim racers can count on us.

Racers everywhere count on us and we take that privilege seriously. We strive endlessly to make our platform reliable and the Trading Paints experience best-in-class in every way.

We respect the artists and their work.

There would be no Trading Paints without our talented, creative community. We look for every possibility to celebrate and elevate artists and their work.

We’re not done yet.

Innovation drives all of us. From our Downloader, Showroom, and Paint Builder — firsts in sim racing — to new ideas on the horizon, we’re committed to creating cutting-edge tools and the best platform possible for the community we love. The best is yet to come.

The custom car painting platform for iRacing.

How it Works