Trackpad Publishing

10/12/2025

https://armorama.com/news/centurion-modeller-s-guide

Volume 2 of Centurion Modeller's Guide is now available from Scorpion Miniature Models.

27/11/2025

Centurion Modeller's Guide Volume 2 - The Later Marks
The book is available NOW!!

https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/product-page/centurion-modeller-s-guide-vol-2-the-later-marks

Also available from SMM-Scorpion Miniature Models

14/10/2025

14/10/2025

Helping out a friend once again to promote his third aviation book about the story of his local airfield.
https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/tales-of-lympne-airfield-3
Available NOW!!
Tales of Lympne Airfield Volume 3
Author: John Simpson
This is the third volume of fascinating accounts of true events that span seventy years of aviation history at Lympne Airfield.
Two world wars, peacetime record breaking, a commercial airport, parachuting, sport and relaxation were all experienced at Lympne.
It is a story about people showing gallantry, aviation prowess, witnessing tragedy, escape, fun and frolics – all helping to make Lympne an international name from 1916 until 1986.

​TTP03 A5 portrait, 132 pages, well over 100 photos, RRP £16.50Available

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.

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