Trackpad Publishing

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The Type 74 was considered outdated even before it entered service.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

05/09/2024

For European customers, JW de Boer will definitely be at SMC Eindhoven. He will have stock of Danish Centurion. If you know him, let him know.

03/09/2024

The Centurion in Danish Service
The book has just arrived from the printer. Available now from the website: https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/buy

In the words of Simon Dunstan, acknowledged expert on the subject of Centurion

While there are several books on the technical and combat history of Centurion, there remains a dearth of publications on its service with European countries. It is therefore highly gratifying that Kim Sørensen has written an exemplary book about The Centurion in Danish Service.

Based on extensive primary research and many interviews with Centurion veterans (all of whom express their affection for the tank), a vivid picture emerges of an army that fulfilled its commitment to NATO through the professionalism of its armoured branch, with the Centurion at its heart. Profusely illustrated with excellent and well-annotated photographs, every aspect of Centurion is covered from technical improvements to crew uniforms and personal equipment. Furthermore, the armoured units within the Danish Order of Battle are well covered to provide the context of Centurion’s employment over the years, until its final retirement and replacement by Leopard 1.

Having written a fair share of Centurion books myself, I cannot praise The Centurion in Danish Service too highly, and I commend it to everyone interested in AFVs, and the Centurion in particular. Trackpad Publications is to be congratulated for producing this book which is an important addition to the overall story of Centurion.

19/06/2024

Helping out a friend once again to promote his second aviation book about the story of his local airfield.
https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/tales-of-lympne-airfield-2
Available NOW!!

Over its seventy-year aviation history, Lympne Airfield was equally important
to the military and civil sectors at different periods.
Opened in 1916, it was integral in two world wars, supporting events and campaigns in Western Europe.
During peacetime, it was the choice of famous aviators, airline operators and private flying.
Lympne saw it all – parachuting, gliding, air racing, air shows, car-carrying aircraft and early jets.

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.

18/02/2024

YouTube author presentation of Trackpad's latest book - Archer.
Catch it here:

Join me as I welcome to Christopher Camfield to the channel to discuss his book Self-Propelled 17-Pounder – Archer Rearwards into Action.Link to buy the book...

24/01/2024

New Title from Trackpad Publishing
Self-Propelled 17-Pounder - Archer
To be published 1st February. £35, 152 pages.
Available for pre-order now from https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/archer

Trackpad would like to introduce a first-time author from Canada, Christopher Camfield.
In November 1944, an ungainly piece of equipment was introduced into service in the British and Canadian armies. Referred to at the time as the ‘Valentine 17-pounder SP’, and later as the ‘Archer’, it was a tracked vehicle with an open compartment at the front and a large gun facing to the rear.
Assigned to give anti-tank support to the infantry, the Archer ought in many difficult battles that had to be won in order to defeat N**i Germany. It continued to serve in the British Army until 1955.
This book tells the story of the Archer from start to finish. It includes the vehicle’s design and development, a detailed description, and contemporary discussions of its merits and flaws. The battles in which it fought are recounted, from its field trials in Normandy and Italy, to the battle for the Rhineland, and points beyond.
Based on archival research at The National Archives of the UK, Library and Archives Canada, and The Tank Museum at Bovington, this book will appeal to military vehicle enthusiasts, scale modellers, and those interested in the Second World War.
Rearwards into Action!

21/09/2023

Leopard 1 Down Range review
With thanks to David Grummitt and Military Modelcraft International
The book is available here: https://www.trackpadpublishing.com/leopard-1-down-range
Click on the image to see the whole review