Welcome to Volume 5 of Diecast Heroes ‘Utimate Mashup’ Get DH Volume 5 Since DH’s inception, we noticed more and more people out of the Diecast Community who didn’t exclusively use Hot Wheels for their creations. We see Tarmac Works, Burago, Greenlight, Majorette and others or a mix of them being used on a regular basis. Others create 3D or from scratch and it looks phenomenal. Volume 5 ‘Ultimate Mashup’ is an all inclusive Journal to showcase all of them. We can’t deny that Hot Wheels does seem to be the most used brands from where we stand. But – oh my – would we do the world an injustice if ..read more

Welcome to Volume 5 of Diecast Heroes ‘Utimate Mashup’ Get DH Volume 5 Since DH’s inception, we noticed more and more people out of the Diecast Community who didn’t exclusively use Hot Wheels for their creations. We see Tarmac Works, Burago, Greenlight, Majorette and others or a mix of them being used on a regular basis. Others create 3D or from scratch and it looks phenomenal. Volume 5 ‘Ultimate Mashup’ is an all inclusive Journal to showcase all of them. We can’t deny that Hot Wheels does seem to be the most used brands from where we stand. But – oh my – would we do the world an injustice if ..read more

Welcome to the post apocalyptic Volume 6 ‘Planet Gaslands’, dedicated to the world of extreme desert machines from the world of Gaslands. Get DH Volume 6 Thanks to Volume 2, ‘Cyberpunk’ Issue, we stumbled across the custom diecast community’s love for all things post-apocalyptic resulting in Volume 6 ‘Planet Gaslands’. It was a real eye-opener for us going through the varying post-apocalyptic genres and the already existing love within the diecast community for it. With our Cyberpunk issue out of the way, the following issues already mapped and being worked on, it fell to Volume 6 ‘Planet Gasl ..read more

We asked if you would like a coloring book dedcated to custom Diecasts and the answer was ‘YES’, so we created one with Fireball. This is the making of the ‘Diecast Demons Coloring Book’. As many of you know, Fireball is an awesome and long standing Hollywood Automotive Concept Artist. Many of you are very familiar with his work without realising. Here is a short list of Movies he provided concept cars for: 1989 Batman (yes, the very first Batman Car was conceptualised by Fireball) Monster Garage Gone in 60 Seconds Jurassic Park G.I. Joe The Avengers Knight Rider, etc Fireball was offering ..read more

‘Catch me ridin nerdy’ is the catchphrase on Instagram for Darren McDonough On Instagram Darren can be found under the name of gashammer with the introduction of ‘Catch me ridin nerdy’. Darren McDonough is an Artist from Canada who submitted his custom Diecast ride for your enjoyment on our blog as much as ours. For so many, the Pandemic as a perfect excuse to brush up on your talents, skills and do more with your own interests, it was no different for Darren, who started customising HotWheels as some point in 2020. With development, interests expanded and he stumbled upon the Gaslands game ..read more

Batman is always mighty, even when he is in 1:64 scale mini format, agreed? There isn’t a child or grown up that does not hold some fascination with Batman and/or someone in his universe. Why wouldn’t we? Batman stands for the average person working their way out of trauma and into a symbol of hope, justice, courage and as well personal break through. This 1:64 scale mini mighty Batman was created by Muhammad Hendrico who entered his Diecast(s) for print in the Diecast Heroes Journal – Sci-Fi Multiverse. He was kind enough to tell us a little about his work for the Sci-Fi Journal and the websi ..read more

There are many things we love about the custom diecast scene and one of those is the art of diorama making. To recreate a real life scene so that your diecasts can be submerged into that world in 1/64 scale is truly something special. There are many of you who can recreate real life locations with incredible detail and one of those is 44_diorama on instagram from Indonesia. Take a look at the amount of real life locations he his building! From the Arizona highway route 66 to eating hangouts such as KFC and Dunkin’ Doughnuts. The level of detail is truly remarkable. Follow him over at https ..read more

What happens when you combine a Beetle and a VW Bus? This incredible custom diecast creation. When it comes to creativity, you guys never fail to amaze us at to how your minds work. This weeks custom builder feature goes to Nopanfrust Official out in Indonesia, who has combines a Hot Wheels Volkswagen Beetle and Camper, to create an Iron Man helmet! Giving it a full red and gold Iron Man paint scheme, to replicating the helmet opening by creating gullwing doors, opening front windows and front hood…genius idea. He even added some interior details in the form of seats and even and engine. Th ..read more

Introducing the king of custom Hot Wheels package builds…The Card Guy. Like most of us I used to play with these toys when I was a kid. I had like 2 boxes filed with all these Hot Wheels and Matchboxes. Eventually I outgrew them. Fast forward 15yrs and in the late 90s my island of Puerto Rico started this craze of downhill racing which got my curiosity started and eventually got me into collecting again. Then I moved to the States and my collecting was put aside, but still had a little over 200 cars in storage. Being in the US was like a bridge for my friends back in PR to find cars. A lot ..read more

It’s always a pleasure to see so many different people who love collecting and customising diecasts. Shannon here is your ultimate wife and mum, who is a huge collector of diecasts and she also customises them. Not only that, but she is also passing that passion and knowledge to her son, who is also customising diecasts. Take a look at the one below he made, super awesome! I’m Shannon from @trinity.custom.hw and here are some of my customs. I started customizing January of 2020 when I found a Mazda CX-5 and decided I wanted to make it look like the one I drove. I enjoy it so much I started ..read more