Trackpad Publishing

20/03/2025

Here is a double review of two Japansese titles recently released.
https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/japanese-type-74
https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/japanese-type-16

It's been a while since we've featured anything from Trackpad Publishing. For those of you who don't know the publisher, first, where have you been? And second, you have missed some of the best-produced and most informative armour-related books on the market.
Not my words - but those of David Grummitt of Military Modelcraft International😀

Available here:
https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/japanese-type-74
https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/japanese-type-16

02/02/2025

Type 16 Mobile Combat Vehicle
Available now!!! https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/japanese-type-16

17/01/2025

Japanese Type 16 Mobile Combat Vehicle
https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/japanese-type-16

Due for publication early February. Pre-Orders are very welcome!

60 pages. 130 photos. £15.50 retail

The Type 16 Mobile Combat Vehicle (16MCV) is a wheeled armoured vehicle of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). It is transportable by air and has high on-road mobility to enable rapid deployments to strategic locations and air transportability.
The main armament is the same 105 mm gun used on the Type 74 tank allowing it to destroy enemy armoured vehicles by direct fire. The Fire-Control System is based on that of the Type 10 Tank, therefore achieving highly accurate fire whilst on the move.
The 16MCV shares data between vehicles and units via a Field Communication System command-and-control software and battlefield information software.
Type 16MCVs are deployed in reconnaissance combat battalions and rapid deployment regiments in divisions/brigades of the JGSDF.

31/12/2024

27/10/2024

Japanese Type 74 Main Battle Tank
by Koji Miyake
Now available direct from Trackpad.
https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/japanese-type-74
64 pages, over 160 photos, £15.50

16/10/2024

Japanese Type 74 Main Battle Tank
Available for Pre-Order now on the website:
https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/japanese-type-74

Publication due 26 October

The Type 74 Tank (74TK) is a main battle tank (MBT) of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). It was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as a supplement to the earlier
Type 61 Tank. The first prototype was delivered in 1968.
It was a second-generation MBT equipped with an L7A1 105 mm main gun. The 74TK was designed to present as small and low a profile as possible.
It was unique when introduced because it could alter its posture by using its hydro-pneumatic suspension to raise or lower the hull. This also provided a stable shooting platform, increasing firing accuracy.
The Type 74 was considered outdated even before it entered service. Since 2019, the retirement of Type 74 has been taking place, to be replaced by the 8-wheeled Type 16 Mobile Combat Vehicle, the subject of another Trackpad book.
Featured in this book are the Recovery, Anti-aircraft and Bridge-laying versions all based on the same chassis.

64 pages. Over 170 photos. A4 landscape. Retail price £15.50

27/09/2024

The Centurion in Danish Service

For EEC customers only
We can now sell this book directly from Denmark without external charges.
If you are an EEC resident, please contact the author here via email instead of ordering from the website.

Either go to the website as per the screen shot, or PM me here for the author's details.

26/09/2024

Armorama review of The Centurion in Danish Service
https://armorama.com/news/book-review-the-centurion-in-danish-service

With thanks to Paul Truhe😀

New book from Trackpad Publishing by Kim Hartvig Sørensen covering the Centurion tank in service with the Royal Danish Army.

17/09/2024

Danish Centurion
A lovely review from David Grummitt in the October issue of Military Modelcraft International. Thank you David.
Available right here: https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/centurion-in-danish-service

23/03/2024

Self-Propelled 17-Pounder, Archer - Rearwards into Action
Chris Camfield, the author of this popular book, has been busy promoting via a second PodCast which you can hear, here: https://ww2podcast.com/news/220-the-archer-reversing-to-victory/
It is well-worth a listen.

From late 1944, an ungainly piece of equipment was introduced into service in the British and Canadian armies, the ‘Archer’.

19/03/2024

Military Modelcraft International have given Trackpad Publishing a wonderful review of our Archer book. With many hanks to David Grummitt.