Applying playermodel's colour to player's corpse (TTT)

[Saints]

I've recently made some of the playermodels in my pointshop colourable and have added the ability for players to colour said models. However, whenever a player dies, their corpse will understandably not inherit the colour of the playermodel. My question is this: how can I change either the pointshop item's code or the gamemode code to add the playermodel's colour to the corpse? The code I am using can be seen below:

function ITEM:OnEquip(ply, modifications)
	if not ply._OldModel then
		ply._OldModel = ply:GetModel()
	end
	if modifications.color ~= nil then
		borkolor = modifications.color
	ply:SetPlayerColor(Vector( borkolor.r / 255, borkolor.g / 255, borkolor.b / 255))
	end
	timer.Simple(1, function() ply:SetModel(self.Model) end)
end

function ITEM:OnHolster(ply)
	if ply._OldModel then
		ply:SetModel(ply._OldModel)
		ply:SetPlayerColor(Vector(0.24, 0.34, 0.41))
	end
end

function ITEM:Modify(modifications)
		PS:ShowColorChooser(self, modifications)
end

function ITEM:OnModify(ply, modifications)
    self:OnHolster(ply)
    self:OnEquip(ply, modifications)
end

On a side-note, is there any way to change the specific colour of playermodel, as many of them use the default blue which doesn't match some of my playermodel's well. Thanks for any help! :D