Bob I hope I'm not too late to contribute to this campaign This dio depicts a Marine squad burning out Japanese held caves on Iwo Jima

Jan,
Nice to see your progress also. Still can’t believe you can work on something that small.

Jan,
Still mighty impressive for something that small, looking good. 6” is a pretty good guess, I don’t have anything that specifically measures it but 6 to 10 inches would be pretty close, 10 inches being the root for the barrel.

Paul, Welcome aboard!
I have a few photos that I’ll e-mail to you when I get home tonight. I have never gotten around to building an LVT 4, surprised myself, I have 3 of them just sitting there. So much to do and so little time. The photos will help determine which you might want to do depending on what exactly comes with the kit. Some items can be scratched, like side armor, just depends how far you want to get into it. I have more then what I’m sending so if you need specifics just let me know. I haven’t found any really good review of this kit, so you might be pretty much on your own with the basic kit. Of course there are plenty of add-ons, PE and such but you should do just fine OOB.

Looking forward to more updates,
Bob

Paul,
OK, here are a few from each battle you can use for reference,
This is the A24 on Tinian;

Not sure if this is the same A24 but sure looks like it

Another from Tinian

The painting would be Blue/Grey with the line camo probably green
One for Okinawa;

And 3 for Iwo Jima



And this is the platform that the gunners used

That should get you going. Remember if you need really specifics on the LVT 4 I also have parts of the manuals for reference.
Good Luck,
Bob

Jan, your at it again and in that scale that hurts my eyes. BTW it is looking good, and of my favorite pleasure vehicle.

Robert