JOHN OWEN
Founder & CEO, Printing, Shipping & Customer Service
RYAN McCLAIN
Chief Designer & Marketing
Made “IN” Indiana
Cardinal Police Diecast started as a Facebook page for John Owen to post pictures of the models he made so his personal Facebook profile would not be filled with pictures of model cars. Ryan McClain had started designing some decals for models he wanted, but found that he had no good way to print them, so John suggested that Ryan send the designs over to him, he'd fit them to the model and print the sheets out. From there, the Cardinal Police Diecast you know today was born.
The "Cardinal" part of our name comes from where we went to college. Both John and Ryan attended Ball State University in Muncie, IN, the home of the Cardinals. Fun fact: John happened to attend Ball State before Ryan was even born. Because we both went to college and now live and work in Indiana, we do have a lot of Indiana agencies available, if you didn't notice.