@Ratchet_girl/@scale_bunny

Miika, who goes by @ratchet_girl on Instagram, has established herself as one of the top customizers in the community who is always striving to perfect her skills. Each new build tops her last post! Her signature style is candy paint airbrushed over a chromed body, mainly in some shade of pink. In addition to sourcing wheels and decals from friends in the hobby, she also 3D prints some of her own custom parts. She's also been sharing some plastic kit builds on a separate page: @scale_bunny. You might catch a glimpse of Miika's cool collection of full scale rides too on her page, like a Mazda Rx8 and Mustang GT. Go follow @ratchet_girl now!

@GH_customs

Greg is another legend in the custom Hot Wheels game. He take an old school approach to his builds, which follow a perfected formula of cranking hot rods and classic American muscle cars to eleven. Keeping the paint schemes simple and effective allow his custom graphics do all the talking. These cars look like they came right off the pegs from a new release from the Hot Wheels Premium line. Not only that, he's just an all around good guy! One of the best in the hobby, according to Pdubrewer who I featured last time. Greg's Instagram is one of the cornerstones of this hobby, so it's best you get to following @gh_customs.

@tippityplop

Liam is undoubtedly the most creative mind to ever grace the pages of Live and Let Diecast. What started out of pure boredom, he found ways to customize 1:64 scale cars in a way no one else can. Going by the nickname @tippityplop on Instagram, Liam tends to modify off-road trucks with huge rubber tires and bespoke chassis's he personally developed and cut with a CNC machine. He also pioneered jump-shot photography on LaLD with a heavily modified Ford Escort rally car. He's also fabricated his own roll cages, perfected a weathering technique, and even experimented with stop motion films! After a bit of a sabbatical, Liam is once again active in the diecast community, and there's no one happier about it than me.

@alpaca.erin

I've yet to find a more talented artist than Erin in the customizing community. Forget everything you know about wheel swaps, suspension drops, and airbrushed paint jobs for a minute. Erin uses these little cars like blank canvases and hand paints tiny murals on wheels. She's done everything from mermaids and koi fish to scenic landscapes and psychedelic images that would make Janis Joplin envious. I can't image the patience, nerves of steel, and steady hands Erin must have in order to create these wonderful masterpieces. Plus she likes alpacas, which you might have guessed from her Instagram name @alpaca.erin.

@tacitrainbows

Wayu is another talented artist that I met through Live and Let Diecast. He's got a page on Instagram under @tacitrainbows, and its full to the brim with post-apocalyptic, dystopian society style race cars, wreckers, and trucks. Like the others featured in this article, most of Wayu's work goes beyond paint and wheels, requiring custom fabrications and heavy weathering to achieve the look he's after. Couple that with his knack for photography, and you've got yourself a kickass Instagram page to follow. His creations are always dropped in the perfect setting outdoors, one of the best places you can shoot! Add @tacitrainbows to your list right now.

Or course, you can always find me on Instagram sharing the best diecast pics from the Live and Let Diecast blog @live_and_let_diecast, and my own collection @sn210, but nowhere near as fun to follow as these 5!

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