Does anyone make a kit of this piece? thanks in advance.

Yes, Italeri makes the whole line of M110 chassis vehicles. They have an M107 175mm Howitzer, M110 8" Vietnam version, and an M110A2. Revell also reboxed the A2 with a few other pieces and new tracks added to build an M110A2G German version.

It may be useful to mention that in fact decals and tracks are the only new parts in Revell kit and these tracks are taken from their Gemran M109 kit. Not only they are inaccurate for German M110, but they don't even fit properly to M110 model! Original Italeri US style tracks are not included in Revell kit. I don't recommend Revell kit, unless you must have nice Bundeswehr decals included in it and don't mind inaccurate tracks that have to be modified to fit the model.

Pawel

Hi Steve,

The Revell is a good kit, no serious problems, a few sinkmarks but nothing extreme. The barrel is absolutely enormous, and needs a bit of work to eliminate the seam, but other than that it's a kit I can recommend.
I build it as a copy of an actual vehicle, for the owner.







And a picture of the real one. Not one to stir the flames, but notice the rusty tracks... mind you, this one does sit on a lowloader outside all year...



Ohh, BTW, Gino is correct, the tracks in the Revell kit are the German type ones. Also British used. They are accurate, but they are a pig to get in place. I used glue and wire to get them to lay down on the raod wheels.


Cheers
Henk

No Henk, they are not. In all Revell kits I saw included were tracks from their M109 kit. These are also German Diehl tracks, but not the same as on German and British M110! Check reference photos - Diehl tracks on M110 have center connectors between two rubber blocks on each link! Diehl tracks on M109, like those included included in Revell kit, don't have center connectors, but rather simple rectangular links with connectors only on ends.



Actually to fit correct Diehl tracks to M110 new 12-teeth sprocket wheels were installed on German and British vehicles, but Revell kit includes standard US type 11-teeth sprockets, which only accidentally fit to their M109 tracks.

Also the reason you have so much problems fitting tracks is that M109 tracks are longer than M110 tracks and without cutting off a few links (or using glue like you did) they just don't want to seat properly on M110 wheels.

Pawel

Pawel, You are right about the centre connector, and I had forgotten about the lenght of the tracks, I did remove two on each side...
The kit tracks do have a (small) 'gap' between the two rubber blocks though,

and lets be fair, unless you want to replace the tracks with Aftermarket ones, they look close enough on the finished model. At least they are not the U.S. style ones. Unless you want to build a U.S. version...

Cheers
Henk

Yes, surely they do (although of course not for me ).

Pawel

I thought I remember the tracks on my 110 as having only 1 pad on them, your model looks great thanks for the flashback now I have to build one.
Rock of the Marne 3ID

The US track only has one pad. Brit and German M110s use German Diehl tracks, which have two pads per piece of track.