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Diecast Collector is a British magazine dedicated to the hobby of collecting diecast metal vehicles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Published monthly, it is a thick, glossy magazine featuring a variety of articles on toy and model cars , trucks, and buses, and aircraft .
Guiloy – Spanish manufacturer of die-cast models in 1:64, 1:43, 1:24 and 1:18 scales. Guisval – Spanish manufacturer of die-cast models in 1:64 and 1:43 scales. Gunze Sangyo – Japanese plastic model manufacturer. One series is 1:32 scale American cars from the 1950s.
Greenlight Collectibles or simply Greenlight is an American manufacturing company based in Indianapolis, which produces die-cast scale model vehicles. [1] The company was founded in 2002, [2] and mainly produces diecast models of cars, trucks, and other vehicles.
Ertl has also, on different occasions, acquired the licenses to produce die-cast vehicles and figurines as well as model kits for Looney Tunes, Garfield, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, Tugs, Theodore Tugboat, Super Mario Bros. DC Comics, and Star Wars. In 1999, Ertl was purchased by Racing Champions.
Husky was a brand name for a line of business die-cast toy scale model vehicles manufactured by defunct company Mettoy Playcraft Ltd. of Swansea, Wales, which also made the larger Corgi Toys. Husky Models was re-branded "Corgi Junior" in 1970, and a further range called "Corgi Rockets" was developed to race on track sets.
In the 1980s and 1990s, car and trucks were well proportioned and had interesting features, but models were a bit too heavy on details that could have been rendered more delicately or accurately. Chrome spears along the sides of 1950s cars, for example, were sometimes too thick and unrealistically embedded in grooves in the die-cast body.
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Typical early Dinky die-cast toy, with multiple parts and rubber tires, but early models had no glazed windows. A die-cast toy (also spelled diecast, or die cast) is a toy or a collectible model produced by using the die-casting method of putting molten lead, zinc alloy or plastic in a mold to produce a particular shape. Such toys are made of ...