Construction of the Lindberg kit for a friend's father

Lindberg Kit

June 19, 2014: I was asked to build a model of LST 488 for my friend Brenda's father, who served on the ship in the Pacific during World War 2. Initially I planned to gather some plans and data, and build the ship in wooden lifts. In my research I found this ship was a Type 1 LST and that was almost all I found. Plans are scarce to expensive, by someone suggest using the Lindberg kit. I found the Lindberg 1:245 scale model on ebay, not the most highly, or correctly detailed kit, but just about the only one available. Anything else out there was much smaller than this 16 inch model.

This kit dates back to the 50's and also came in a motorized version. The repackaged version I have came out, I think, for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings in 2004.

I've seen only two photos of this ship; one shows some sort of cammo pattern painted on her - The question is; what are the colors? Greens? Blues? Grays? Modelers that have research Naval cammo, LSTs, etc don't know, but the best guess from those 'in the know' is 5-O Ocean Gray and 5-N Navy Blue.

I wonder if the colors are greens, like the LST in the color picture. I'm told its a different pattern, but the style of the pattern looks similar to me. There's some blacks in there with the greens, so maybe it IS different?

The other photo was not downloadable, shows the same side, and is very small. She looks like she's a solid color in that image, but it's impossible to tell without a better quality image.
The caption reads:

LST-488 US NAVY PHOTO: Unloading operations at Olsens landing, Munda, New Georgia Island. Trucks lined up to unload LST-488. LCT's 69, 70 and 323 can be seen to right, 11 Oct, 1943.