“It’s Alive..!”

One of the first Sword models we ever reviewed had an Elliott fuel/lube body on it, and it’s still a hell of a show. This time, it’s parked on a Mack Granite chassis, and the combination comes across as a rolling lab for mad scientists, with tanks, rails, opening doors, mounted machinery, and legible markings everywhere.

Neat Pete

Sword’s Peterbilt 357 wears a mega-yard East Genesis dump body in this release, and the bright yellow Pete is slammed with visible detail even before you open the little bags of hardware, mirrors, and add-on parts it comes with. The photoetched grille, outstanding tamped-on and applied graphics and markings, and a beautiful metallized finish on the dump body make the model a head turner from moment one.

Rollin’ Low

Rogers “lowboy” trailers are built for big, roll-on loads, like bulldozers, graders, mobile cranes, or any combination of the above. They’re engineered to be wheeled to a job site, where they shed their “gooseneck” - the angular beam that hitches to the tractor at one and, and the trailer at the other - all the better to allow easy off-and-on handling of the machines they carry.

Reach, Partner

TWH makes their daily bread tooling up promotional models for the companies that make heavy equipment, and because of that arrangement, they have access to straight-from-the-manufacturer info on upcoming product. That makes for timely models - and a wildly detailed line of replicas.

Prime Pumper

Fire trucks have become so advanced that their inner structures resemble landlocked fighter aircraft. They use a lot of the same materials; hardened aluminum, titanium, and sophisticated castings and extrusions give the giant bodies amazing strength at a weight that allows acceleration and handling better than anything toting this much equipment has ever had before.