Cathay Pacific green is.....actually grey!!

[Charter]

Apologize: if Cathay Pacific states that the strip is grey of course the strip is grey and the grey is "BOTTICELLI" type, coming from the colors palette of the great Italian painter Sandro Botticelli (1445 - 1610), the painter of "La nascita di Venere"


but looking at CX "Botticelli" grey (posted by YesterAirlines) and at the original "Botticelli" grey there is a great difference.



So the original "Botticelli" grey has been changed a bit by Cathay Pacific.
And this also explains the great difficulty to reproduce the original grey on CX models.

 

[Phantom]

Ask 10 color converters get 10 different HEX (or RGB, or...) values.
Whenever I do a colorimeter readout of a paint sample, I also get slightly different values with every try.
The PMS 5455 (C) would need a faint touch of red, while the stated CMYK doesn't contain any. All this is just a rough approximation I'd say.

As for the variety on one model, there could be another effect coming into play: metamerism.
I take it the fuselage band is tampo printed while the engines are likely airbrushed or maybe dipped. So we're looking at two different laquer systems with probably slightly different compositions, trying to look identical. And it's such colors that are prone to this problem. They may both look identical under lighting conditon X. But under different light or when seen through a camera sensor, they look slightly different to each other. Just a guess here, but I know that such colors are really hard to get right as a single drop of pigment per kg white can throw the entire tone off. And I'm not sure whether these diecast makers actually work with a color management.

 

[Eagle]

Now that we figured out the grey - can we pls talk about the yellow JC uses under that grey stripe? Not seeing that in the official palette either - was that really ever yellow?