Preview: A new M8 in 48th from Tamiya released at the fair....

There was not much in the way of unannounced items for scale modellers at the Tamiya Fair 2022 at Twin Messe Shizuoka. What there WAS however, was a newly tooled kit of a diminutive M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage in 1/48th scale.

Early in 1942, the US armoured force issued a requirement for a close support tank to work with medium tank battalions. 

To satisfy this demand the Cadillac Division of General Motors Corporation of Detroit, Michigan, United States took their M5 "Stuart VI" light tank and modified it to mount a 75mm field howitzer.

We have some images of the kit painted & unpainted, plus sprue parts & other details in our preview...Read on... »