The Atelier
A master modeler, a single workshop in Gröbenzell, and the discipline to grow without ever compromising the hand of the maker. Sixteen years later, the same conviction still guides every chassis, panel line, and decal that leaves Bavaria.
A single workshop, one pair of hands, 2008.
I had spent nineteen years on contract work for companies that wanted things built quickly, cheaply, and at scale. By the autumn of 2007 I had finally said no, for the last time, to a buyer who wanted eight thousand units delivered before Easter. Three months later I signed the lease on a 900-square-foot workshop behind a former dairy in Gröbenzell, bought a single Micromotor drill from my own savings, and began work on the first Gremir Models release: a 1:43 Jaguar D-Type, batch of sixty.
I did not start the atelier to grow it. I started it to keep my own standard intact — the standard I had been trained to hold by men who built prototype wind-tunnel models at Rolls-Royce and configuration tooling for the BAE Systems Hawk. Today the atelier is 14,500 square feet, twenty-three craftspeople strong, and serves fourteen national automotive museums. But the contract is the same one I wrote for myself that first winter: every release is signed by hand, every run is capped, and no model leaves Bavaria unless I would display it on my own mantel.
That is what you are being invited into. Not a brand. A practice.
— Andreas Gremir
The Hands Behind the Work
A lineage of senior modelers, not a generic manufacturer. 142 combined years of master practice across six of the workshop's longest-serving craftspeople — every one of them trained in industrial prototyping or coachbuilt paint before they ever held a photo-etched brass component for Gremir.
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Plus nineteen additional craftspeople across prototyping, CAD engineering, packaging, and quality. The atelier's full roster is published in each release's provenance document.
Sixteen years, 184 models, one atelier.
- 142 years Combined master-craftsman tenure across the senior team
- 184 releases Distinct models produced between 2008 and 2024
- 14 museums National automotive museums holding Gremir editions in trust
- 47 countries Collectors shipped to from the Gröbenzell atelier
Trusted by fourteen national museums and the world's sharpest critics.
Institutional trust is not built with marketing copy. It is earned, piece by piece, across a decade and a half of delivered work, audited certifications, and repeat commissions from the curators who decide what goes into a national collection.
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Fourteen National Automotive Museums
Including the BMW Museum, Munich; the Cité de l'Automobile, Mulhouse; and the Haynes International Motor Museum, Sparkford. Gremir editions are held in permanent display, on loan, or in reference storage by each institution.
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Top 10 World-Class Manufacturers · Four Consecutive Years
Listed by Scale Auto Enthusiast in their annual industry ranking for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 — the only European manufacturer to hold the position consecutively across the period.
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Best in Show — Die-Cast Category
Awarded at the 2024 International Hobby Expo for the 1:8 Porsche 917K "Le Mans 1970" limited release. The judging panel cited the hand-fitted photo-etched brass cooling intake as the deciding technical criterion.
37% of every limited run is reserved for waitlist members first.
Public releases sell out in an average of 4.3 days. Waitlist members see every new edition fourteen days before public announcement, with 37% of the run held exclusively for them — never contested, never oversold. There is no purchase obligation. There is, however, only one way to secure a number before the public release.
- Existing waitlist: 24,600 collectors across 47 countries
- Average sell-out (2023 cohort): 4.3 days
- Reorder rate within 18 months: 68%, the highest documented in the category