A one-of-one model of your car, motorcycle, boat or plane — tailor made by hand
Every one is a commission — drawn from your photos, painted to match your colour, down to the smallest detail.
Cars
Factory paint or race livery, your wheels, your badges and your plate — every model is one car, built to be looked at closely.
Planes & jets
Private jets, airliners and light aircraft — with a clear fuselage so the cabin shows, in your own livery and tail number.
Boats & yachts
From a day boat to a superyacht — built with a full interior, the teak, the flybridge and the name on the stern.
Recent build · 1:24
A 1:24 adventure bike — the spoked wheels, the crash bars, the panniers and your own number plate, all built to scale.
How it is made
Every model is made by hand in our workshop in the Philippines. We use the method that gives your vehicle the most accurate result, in this order.
If an accurate diecast of your exact model exists at your size, it becomes the base — stripped and customised to match yours: paint, wheels, details and plate.
No diecast? An artist sketches it to scale from your photos and the body is carved by hand from solid Philippine mahogany. The small details — headlights, tail lights, mirrors, badges — are resin printed and fitted to the wooden body, then it is sealed, painted and detailed.
Where wood is not viable for the shape, it is modelled from your photos and made in resin, then sanded, painted and assembled by hand — the film below.
Our quick, affordable option, made on our own bench — not carved, and cars only.
Open any stage to watch that part of the build — the two in red are optional extras.
About CarCloners
We make one-of-one scale models of the vehicles people actually own — your car, motorcycle, boat or plane, exactly as it is. It is built one of three ways, in this order: if an accurate diecast of your exact model exists, it becomes the base and we customise it to match yours. If not, yours is sketched and carved by hand from wood. And where wood is not right for the shape, it is made in resin. Either way it is built for one owner and shipped worldwide.
Send us your photos — or on Premium we come to you and scan it in person.
An accurate diecast of your model, customised to match yours. If none exists, sketched and carved by hand from Philippine mahogany — or made in resin where wood is not viable.
Matched to your colour, down to the wheels, the decals and the plate — and checked against your photos at every stage.
You get photos and an update at every step. It never ships until you have seen it finished and approved it — then it goes tracked to your door.
Everything you need to know before you order
Down to the smallest detail. We replicate your colour, your wheels, your decals and your plate - or your livery and tail number, or your hull and the name on the stern - and anything else you tell us about, right down to damage and aftermarket parts.
Cars, motorcycles, boats and planes. Pick which one at the start of the order form and everything after it - the sizes, the details we ask for, the photos we need - is set up for that vehicle. Something else entirely, like a truck or a tractor? Send us a special request and we will quote it.
Yes - from a day boat to a superyacht, and from a light aircraft to a private jet or an airliner. They are sold by length - a boat at 20 inches, 30 inches or 4 feet, a plane at 16, 19 or 24 inches - and if you tell us how long yours is, the order form shows the scale each size comes to. Every one has its full interior (a plane has a clear fuselage so you can see the cabin). Each one is carved by hand from your photos, and you can order just one.
A car takes 4 to 5 months, or 2 to 3 on express, and a Premium car always comes on express. A plane takes 2 to 3 months, or 1 to 2 on express; a boat takes 3 to 4 months, or 2 to 3 on express. A motorcycle takes 5 to 8 weeks, or 3 to 4 on express, and Car Clone Lite takes 3 to 5 weeks. Times count from the day we confirm your details with you, and you are emailed at every stage, with photos.
By hand, in our workshop in the Philippines, in one of three ways - in this order. First we check whether an accurate diecast of your exact vehicle exists at your size: if it does, it becomes the base and is customised to match yours, so that model is not made from scratch. If there is no diecast, an artist sketches it to scale from your photos and it is carved from a solid block of wood. And where wood is not viable for the shape, it is made in resin instead. Every one is then painted to match and detailed by hand, with clear resin lights and resin-printed small parts. Cars, motorcycles, boats and planes are all made this way.
When it is carved, Philippine mahogany, a dense, fine-grained hardwood that holds sharp edges - or balsa or walnut where the model calls for it. (A model built on a diecast base is metal underneath, and where wood is not viable it is made in resin.) The wood is sealed under several coats before it is painted, so the finished model looks like your vehicle, not like wood. Headlights and tail lights are clear cast resin, and small parts like mirrors, badges and the plate are resin printed.
Car Clone Lite is our quick, affordable option and it is not carved. We take a mass-produced 1:64 diecast of your car, strip it back to bare metal and repaint and detail it as yours, on our own bench. It takes 3 to 5 weeks and is cars only. A custom model is sketched and carved by hand for your vehicle alone, in a larger size, with far more detail.
Yes - more than once. We send photos while it is being carved, and when it is finished, before the final top coat, we email you detailed photos and ask you to approve it. If you would like anything changed - a colour, a detail, a part - tell us what and we will change it and send it back to you for approval. It only ships once you are happy with it.
A car comes in three scales: 1:43 is 10 - 11 cm (4 inches), 1:24 is 18 - 20 cm (7 - 8 inches), and 1:18 is 24 - 27 cm (9 - 11 inches). A boat is 20 inches, 30 inches or 4 feet long, and a plane 16, 19 or 24 inches. You choose in the order form and the price updates as you do.
How big it is and how fine the detail can go. Every car we build - at 1:43, 1:24 or 1:18 - comes with its full interior and its engine, built to the most detailed spec our workshop offers. The larger the scale, the more of that detail you can see: 1:18, our largest, shows the most, and it is also the scale every Premium car is built at.
Premium is for cars and motorcycles. A normal model is built from the photos you send. Premium adds a colour scan - our team flies out and matches your real paint, trim and finish right down to the metallic flake - plus a full 3D scan of the vehicle. A Premium car is built at 1:18 only (a Premium motorcycle can be any of our three scales), and Premium has a minimum of two vehicles. Boats and planes are built from your photos only.
Our closest likeness. One of our team travels to wherever your vehicles are kept - your home, a garage or a unit, in any country - and takes a full 3D scan, a paint reading straight off your panels and a set of reference photos under proper light. Your model is then built from those measurements at 1:18, our largest scale, on our express schedule of 2 to 3 months. The visit, the travel, the express build and tracked priority delivery are all included. Premium starts at two vehicles - the price you see is for both.
Six or more is ideal. For a car or motorcycle: all four corners from waist height, straight-on front, back and both sides, the wheels and the plate. For a boat: both sides, the bow, the stern, the decks and the flybridge, plus the interior if you can. For a plane: both sides, the nose, the tail, any logos or livery details, and the cabin. The order form tells you which ones for your vehicle.
Yes - lettered on the model exactly as you type it in the order form: the number plate on a car or motorcycle, the registration on a plane, or the name on the stern of a boat. Leave it blank if you would rather have none.
Yes. Aftermarket wheels, a wrap, a custom livery, a tender on the swim platform - there is a notes box on the order form for exactly this, and we confirm the details with you before we build.
Yes, tracked and insured, wherever you are, packed in foam so it cannot move in transit.
CarCloners is based in Malaysia. Every custom model - car, motorcycle, boat or plane - is hand-built by our workshop partner in the Philippines, and Car Clone Lite is made on our own bench. We ship worldwide, tracked. Delivery is not included in the price - you pick standard or express at checkout and see what it costs before you pay. Your country may charge import VAT or duty on arrival; we show you an estimate at checkout, and your carrier collects it, not us.
Every model is checked and packed by hand before it leaves us, and it travels tracked and insured. If yours arrives broken, email us as soon as you unbox it with photos of the model and the packaging, and we will refund you. Once it has arrived safely it is in your hands: damage after delivery - a drop, a knock, or a break weeks or months later - is not covered, so please handle it with care.
Referral programme
Send them our way and you earn on everything they spend — taken as cash, or as credit against a build of your own. They get free standard shipping for coming through your link, so it is worth something to them too. Applying takes a minute, and a person reads every one.
You get your own link, and a login that shows what you are owed.