Welcome to the World of Diecast

Why we interest with miniature cars ? There are a wide variety of collection that we can take up to fill our spare time. Why we spend our time to collect a diecast ?

Collectors carefully organise their collections, catalog them and proudly display them. Collectors vary in the type of diecast vehicles that they collect, often focusing on subtopics within their collection or collecting specific kinds of diecast vehicles. For example some collectors will collect all diecast truck vehicles while another collector may focus only on some brand, even more specifically, Every collection then is as unique as the individual doing the collection.

There are many manufacturers produced diecast toys including Hotwheels, Matchbox, Johnny Lightning, UT Models, Racing Champions, Tekno, Tomica, Vitesse and many more. Diecast toy collecting, in common with most other types of collecting, is a never ending hobby. There is always another unique or rare toy to find, or another sub collection to start. Even though a collector may specialise in a single marquee they may collect models from the many different decades of the twentieth century, even the nineteenth century for some models when automobiles were first produced. Diecast toy cars are available for all the popular automobile makes including Volkswagen, Ferrari, Austin, Jaguar, Mercedes Benz, Rolls Royce etc.

In addition diecast toys are made in different scales from 1:28 to 1:72 the most popular scale to collect being between 1:43 and 1:64. Although originally made for children they were collected by adults from about the mid 1950's probably by children keeping their toys when they grew up and discovering that they were becoming valued items to collect. So welcome to the world of diecast and enjoy your collection.