Removing variant image thumbnails from the product gallery

Hi,

I've spotted a couple of similar posts but I'm not sure whether the suggestions have worked so...

I have a several variant options for products, which means there are vast numbers of combinations that can be put together by the customer. When adding a variant image for a specific combination it automatically appears in the product image thumbnails. I want to hide them from there so that the image only appears when that combination of variants is selected. Otherwise I could end up with a carousel containing hundreds of images.

Squarespace have confirmed there is no current way of hiding these variant images so I imagine I need to add some code to make it possible. Has anyone managed to make this work? My site isn't live yet so I can't show examples. I am using the MARU template.

This is my first time using Squarespace and my knowledge of coding is limited so if someone is able to help, please also provide as much information as possible as to how to add the code etc.

Thanks in advance

I'm looking for a solution to the same problem. Liisa, have you figured out a solution yet? 

I know it might be too late but I found a solution to the problem thanks to another forum.

.ProductItem-gallery-thumbnails {
display: none;
}

This removes the thumbnails from your product.