Originally posted by jph
For the Rover BRMs, all the photos and film that I have seen seem to suggest that the '63 car was the same shade as the GP cars, but the '65 car looked paler. I found that not applying a laquer coat to my model of the '65 car produced what looked to me like the right shade. But when it comes to colour, particulalrly on models, I guess there's no right answer and what looks right to one person may look totally wrong to another.
I hope you haven't been misled by the respray some years ago of the surviving 1965 Rover-BRM Coupe which left it the wrong colour. It and the 1963 Spyder should wear matching colours - BRM's semi-metallic 'Dark Lust. Green'. The 'Lust.' incidentally was short for 'Lustrous' but was rendered this way on the labelling and invoicing, as sprayed in his spare time by the Bourne undertaker (colonials, undertaker = mortician).
DCN