PAINTING AND DETAILING

Each car is spray-painted by hand with a white base coat, which serves as a primer on the die-cast metal.  Each car body is then individually spray-painted.  For each car part that requires a color other than the body color that part specially masked and painted.  Car bumpers are often spray-masked. 

After the paint on the cars have dried, the logos need to be affixed.  This is done with a process called pad printing.  This is a very tedious stage in the process.  The machine and the car have to be synched and placed in the exact same position each time to assure proper placement of each logo.  For each color in a logo or decal, the car must be "hit" with the pad-printing machine.  If there are four colors in the logo, the car will be "hit" four times.  Tires are also pad-printed one-by-one. 

                        
Once the paint on the car has completely dried, it is time to fully assemble each car.  The injection-molded parts for the interior of the car and engine are individually installed.  When the car is fully assembled, each GreenLight die-cast replica is polished by hand and packaged. 

Packaging