Hello dear friends,
Welcome to the "Homemade Die-cast" official website!
We are a small Ukrainian scale-model brand that was founded in 2019. Everything was started from a simple project: we just wanted to produce a model which wasn`t previously released by any other brand. But we found this experiment successful and realized that we can continue with making the models we want to collect. This is a reason why we decided to choose as a main direction interesting and unusual vehicles or specific and unexpected versions of popular cars. We launched this brand not as a commercial project, first of all, this is a project for the soul.
Originally, we started from the Russian and Ukrainian transport, which we all saw in car magazines from Eastern Europe in 90th, but after the Russian invasion of Ukraine we changed focus and extended the geography of prototypes for our scale models.
Besides collecting, we also like cats, actually, that`s why you can find one on our logo 🐾
Unusual cars are not a mass-market product, so we produce models in limited series of 15-35 items for each. Small series lead us to use handmade technologies such as galvanized copper or resin, but despite this, we decided to follow the best standards of modern die-cast, to allow our models to be precisely designed and crafted in 1:43 scale.
We reflected this in our brand name: attention to important details as in the best production models with true soul which you can find in handmade products only ❤
Our models are produced in cooperation with well-known Ukrainian handmade models’ manufacturers, such as Kimmeria and Vector-models. Both are located in Kherson, and we are proud that even under russian occupation we didn’t stop working. Of course, we didn’t sell models, but we produced them “directly to stock” for the brand`s future. And after Kherson was liberated, we restarted everything and moved to the next level of design and production.
Our main office, which is located in Dnipro, is responsible for the strategy of the brand and the products` quality. Our quality assurance team is highly skilled and professional … but they spend a lot of time sleeping due to their nature :)