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[MarkeytMaker]

I'm interested in the Figarti LVT-1...I would like opinions on using the LVT-1 with my new Figarti ETA-006 Landing Craft? Seems the colors are closely associated...though Im not sure if the two go together. Is it also true only 123 of these were made?

 

[Stryker II]

I'm interested in the Figarti LVT-1...I would like opinions on using the LVT-1 with my new Figarti ETA-006 Landing Craft? Seems the colors are closely associated...though Im not sure if the two go together. Is it also true only 123 of these were made?

MarkeytMaker: Total production of LVT-1's dure whring WWII was 1225. I'm not suere you heard the figure of 123. There were only 125 amtracs for the entire Tarawa landing, which was a mixture of LVT-1 & 2's. Perhaps that is where you got that number. The highest production was LVT-4, which had 8,348 vehicles produced. If you want an exact match for landing craft and amtrac's, then you will have to be careful on where your intentions lie. Remember, the Navy handled landing craft, the Marines were in charge of all LVT's in pacific--it is still that way.............Stryker

 

[MarkeytMaker]

MarkeytMaker: Total production of LVT-1's dure whring WWII was 1225. I'm not suere you heard the figure of 123. There were only 125 amtracs for the entire Tarawa landing, which was a mixture of LVT-1 & 2's. Perhaps that is where you got that number. The highest production was LVT-4, which had 8,348 vehicles produced. If you want an exact match for landing craft and amtrac's, then you will have to be careful on where your intentions lie. Remember, the Navy handled landing craft, the Marines were in charge of all LVT's in pacific--it is still that way.............Stryker

See that's why I ask! I had no idea LTV's were marine specific...therefore displaying the two next to each other would not be a good idea, right?

As for the quantity # I was referencing an ad on Ebay where they claimed the Figarti LTV-1 had a production of 123 total.

I do greatly appreciate the informative response.

 

[Stryker II]

See that's why I ask! I had no idea LTV's were marine specific...therefore displaying the two next to each other would not be a good idea, right?

As for the quantity # I was referencing an ad on Ebay where they claimed the Figarti LTV-1 had a production of 123 total.

I do greatly appreciate the informative response.

MarkeytMaker: glad to help. Let's put it this way, if that production number is correct for Figarti, then I know that there are only 119 left for the rest of the collectors............Stryker

 

[binder001]

MarkeytMaker: Remember, the Navy handled landing craft, the Marines were in charge of all LVT's in pacific--it is still that way.Stryker

Minor detail, I believe that the LVTs were originally ordered by USN's BuShips. As "Navy property" all the LVTs rolled off the FMC line in dark gray until 1944 when the base paint was changed to olive drab. I'll check my copy of "Across The Reef" when I get home.

Gary B.

 

[Blowtorch]

...though Im not sure if the two go together.

No such thing in wartime. If they floated, they went together.

Seriously, speaking, er, writing as someone who has looked deeply into US war paint, and I mean deeply: the istrumentation, the scientists, their technical papers, their careers, pre, during, and post WW2, which agency they got conscripted into, specifications, color standards,

you really don't have to worry about it. The best talent & energy went into uniform color matching...dyes...uniforms got a whole lot more attention in color matching than painted equipment. Even then, the Army got nearly all of the scientists, and even then only the Quartermaster. Engineers got the leftovers, and not much was left after that.

I really could go on & on about this, but I'm not sure this is the place for it. You can email me for more info if you like...but it's all technical/scientific history...not exactly NYTimes Book of the Year material.

 

[MarkeytMaker]

No such thing in wartime. If they floated, they went together.

Seriously, speaking, er, writing as someone who has looked deeply into US war paint, and I mean deeply: the istrumentation, the scientists, their technical papers, their careers, pre, during, and post WW2, which agency they got conscripted into, specifications, color standards,

you really don't have to worry about it. The best talent & energy went into uniform color matching...dyes...uniforms got a whole lot more attention in color matching than painted equipment. Even then, the Army got nearly all of the scientists, and even then only the Quartermaster. Engineers got the leftovers, and not much was left after that.

I really could go on & on about this, but I'm not sure this is the place for it. You can email me for more info if you like...but it's all technical/scientific history...not exactly NYTimes Book of the Year material.

I just want to make sure I don't end up with a diorama that looks goofy or mis-matched. Take the IWJ23 Amtrack set and put it with the Figarti Landing Craft for an example...I think the end result would be equivalant of having a colorful "Bozo the Clown" piloting the plane in the black & white movie "12 O'Clock High"...you know what I mean...scary?

 

[Blowtorch]

As you can infer from my previous post, the USAAF didn't get any expertise at all

This is a photo Dana Bell used for one of his magazine articles. This was in Scale Aircraft Modelling in 2002

 

[MarkeytMaker]

I wonder if this was the so called Salmon Color?

Salmon was a pale pink-coloured chromate primer used by Vought in production of the F4U Corsair. It was produced by mixing Indian Red pigment with raw Zinc Chromate primer.
The actual tone was reddish orange.