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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2011 9:39:35 GMT
Can anyone tell me please what was the shade of green used on the Lotus in the 'Prisoner' series? I always thought it was 'British Racing Green'? Also, the shade of yellow on the nose? Lotus can't help and Caterham have suggested that the green was 'Spruce Green'?
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Post by sanguin on Aug 8, 2011 10:24:12 GMT
Nick,
I built one of these a couple of years back for a friend running a Caterham. The 1/12th Tamiya Caterham kit was wayyyy out of my financial league (and his, too) and not available so he got the old 1/24th as 'The Prisoner' colour scheme.
I used good old Tamiya X5 for the green and I think Tamiya X8 Lemon Yellow for the stripe. Thinned with Tamiya X20 or whatever it is, brush painted many thin coats then just given a coat or three of Kleer. The seats were XF-9 Hull Red and I forgot to add a tax disc.....Number plate was first printed on paper as a 'negative', looked awful so I used a sheet of railway lettering and numbers on plain black transfer sheet to make them.
He was quite chuffed and the colours just looked 'right' to my eyes and his. His Caterham was also green, but apparently that was a Rover colour. The BTCC Volvo that he got next really did surprise him, he'd actually traded in his bog standard Volvo estate for the Caterham in some sort of "I'm not really 50". He now runs a Honda Civic....
John
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2011 11:41:36 GMT
Cheers John, the enquiry was for one of the members of the 1/24 truck forum. It comes to something when Lotus don't have a record of it and Caterham just shrug their shoulders French style ...  |
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Post by fastcat on Aug 8, 2011 19:24:43 GMT
For what it's worth, SMTS who make a lot of 1/43 Lotus race cars usually recommend Rover Brooklands green if automotive sprays are prefered. It's likely that Lotus would have used their race colour for road cars too.
Tamiya recommend X5 in the Lotus 7 kit so that's a good call as well.
By the way, there's no true colour for British Racing Green. It's generic and can vary from a really dark, almost black green to a much lighter colour like Napier used on their first race-car. Almost every British race car had their own version. It got the name BRG because green was Britains national race colour.
Pretty much like Ferrari red for that matter 
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2011 19:54:20 GMT
Thanks David, that expands the answer a tad, I'll pass that on.
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