Vehicle licensors were often an excellent source of future die-cast ideas. Of course, every time a newly styled 1:1 Corvette or Mustang was in the works they would also be must-do choices for many of the Zee Toys car lines. We would usually get advance information about them that we had to keep confidential. Sometimes […]

• Charles Hepperle
• Designer & Sculptors
• Model Cars
• Zee Toys

Here’s the drill on photographing a vehicle that is to be made as a die-cast toy. I’ve included a little about motorcycles but for this example, we’ll use Ivan “Ironman” Stewart’s Toyota off-road race pickup truck. Briefly, one finds a flat, level location where the subject can be about a hundred feet from the camera. […]

• Charles Hepperle
• Designer & Sculptors
• Model Cars
• Zee Toys