PAINTING 101

Here's a quick tutorial on painting for NASCAR 2/99. It's simple.

TUTORIAL LINKS AND FILES

Download GIMP 2.8.0

ACpaintkit - Includes Nascar2.pal and test.pcx files

USEFUL PALETTES

Photoshop palette - James Wiggin

Affinity Designer Nascar2 palette - ACRacing

Nascar2.pal - Chris Frederick

TEMPLATES

Early '90s - Ford, Pontiac, Olds, Buick, Chevy

PAINTING EXAMPLES

1994 Jeff Gordon DuPont

1994 Harry Gant Skoal

MAKE YOUR OWN PALETTE

If you've watched the tutorial and think we need palette files for whatever paint program you use, here is the color pad for N2/99. You would just create a new palette in your program and eyedrop each color one by one, and then no one ever has to do that again for that program.

SHOUT-OUTS

We must recognize some giants of the late '90s painting scene. 

• Chris Frederick's name is attached to the Nascar2.pal file used to this day. He also made a great PKAssist resource.

• Alex Santantonio made a program to fix corrupted palettes. This is obsolete given our 2024 workflow in the video above, but it sounds like this was a big deal back in its day.

• Mike's NASCAR World's Painting 101

• IWCCCARS

• Johannes Royola, along with body mods, has also made numerous car sets.

HELP

• Classic Papyrus Discord server

• Contact the Webmaster: acracingnr2@gmail.com

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