One of the most hotly-contested categories this year, Model Brand of the Year’s deserving winner is;

Tarmac Works burst onto the scene and revolutionized the 1/64 world at every level, offering super-high detail, novel packaging, ultra-detailed engines and even trading cards as well as capitalizing on exciting and novel model licenses.

The brainchild of Luis Tanahara, CarTuned brings a fresh, fun, creative approach to the three-inch diecast space.

Conrad Models continue to offer a wide array of models, from compact street sweepers and forklifts, through vans and articulated trucks, all the way to crawler cranes and mining machines, all striking apleasing balance between hefty construction, great details, and well-engineered functionality.

Now approaching its 70th anniversarly, Corgi has revitalized its offerings with the new Corgi Model Club re-issuing popular models from its past while continuing to offer a wide range of British car models in its 1/43 Vanguards range and exciting Pop Culture-related models.

Offering a great combination of price and quality, Solido has a huge number of exciting new castings continuing to come out in 1/18 scale especially.
Congratulations to all the very worthy nominees!


