Hosting & software
The server, the forum platform, the backups and the security that keep 1.2 million posts online and searchable.
The Original Model Car Club
Since 1994, The Diecast Zone has been where collectors talk shop — 1.2 million posts deep, free to read and free to post. Membership is just $25 a year, and it is what keeps every bit of it here.
1,276,037Posts
195,666Topics
10,000+Members
1994Founded
Where your dues go
What your $25 pays for
Reading and posting are free, and they always will be. Dues are what let us say that.
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- 1:12 & larger
The archive
Threads back to 2002 — 165,144 of them recovered and restored this year, including boards that had been dark for years.
Hall of Fame
Nominations, voting, the portraits, and the permanent record of the people who built this hobby.
Giveaways & raffles
Models shipped to members, show support, and the newsletter that goes out to the whole club.
The auctions
The auction software, the seller accounts and the payment handling behind The Diecast Zone Auctions — back online now.
What comes with it
What you get
- A member badge on every post you makeA gold “Club Member” tag beside your name in the forums.
- Friendships that last decadesThe best part of this club has never been the models — it is the people. Collectors who share the obsession, remember what you are working on, and make this somewhere you are always welcome.
- Partner discounts, raffles and giveawaysMembers get discount codes from the shops we work with, and the club runs raffles and model giveaways through the year. What is on offer changes, so watch the forums and the club newsletter.
- Your name in the Club Member rollA single page listing current members by year, updated as dues come in.
- Buy and sell in the club auctionsThe Diecast Zone Auctions are relaunching now. Sell to collectors who know exactly what they are looking at, and the club takes 10% instead of the 12 to 17% an auction site charges.
How to join
Three ways to pay your $25
Easiest · instant
Card or PayPal
Checkout through the club store. Takes about a minute, and you get a receipt by email.
PayPal direct
Send to the club
Send $25 straight to the club’s PayPal address, and put your forum name in the note.
club@diecast.org
By mail · 5–7 days
Check
Payable to The Diecast Zone. Write your forum name on the memo line.
The Diecast Zone
16 Walker Way, Suite 4
Albany, NY 12205
16 Walker Way, Suite 4
Albany, NY 12205
Since 1994
Thirty-two years, one club
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The Diecast Zone is foundedA mailing list and a handful of collectors trading photos of scale models.
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diecast.org goes onlineThe club gets a website — and a bulletin board that collectors have been posting on ever since.
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The record we still hold beginsEvery thread from 2002 onward is still here, and still searchable.
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The archive comes home165,144 threads and 1,031,651 posts from the early years restored to the live forums, with their original dates and authors intact.
From the forums
Built, shot and shared by members
From the forums and the Car List — models owned, photographed and reviewed by the members of this club.
The Hall of Fame
Every one of them started as a member
The Diecast Hall of Fame: collectors, builders, photographers and writers elected by the club. The 2026 class below are all members — every one of them started exactly the way you would, by joining, posting photographs, and sticking around.
Jackman
Kuvakas
Goranson
Rusk
Roberts
Schnelle
Williams
Quilter
Knaack
Elford
Davis
Cappi
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