Question about Word Bearer HH color scheme

[Kilofix]

My OCD is making me ask - so that I can accurately paint:

 

In Horus Heresy Book Two - pg.144 and 145;

Is the Word Bearer shoulder pad really black or is it just still grey like their pre-heresy all grey color scheme?

 

It doesn't seem to look as grey as the WB on pg.146.

 

Thanks.

[Barabbas Sogalon]

It's black. I think it's the shine that makes it look grey.

[Marshal Loss]

Yeah mate it's black, just how the light effect makes it look

[Kilofix]

One more picky detail but does the supposedly Colchisian script on Lorgar's face on pg.258 look Greek to you?

I'm pretty sure I see a Zeta, Theta, Delta, Mu, Pi, Chi, Psi, etc.

 

I'm planning banner script currently - I'm torn between making it more Cuneiform (like just a series of wedges) or more Greek (letters) with regards to the 'big letters' that preceed each 'paragraph' or 'sentence'.

 

Thanks again.

 

Edit - meant Erebus on 258 not Lorgar.

[Kol Saresk]

The Colchisian script is meant to a random variety of symbols that look suitably "ancient" and "mystical". I'm sure somewhere there's an old arabic symbol for cow, a yiddish word for cup.

[Scribe]

I dont think the Colchisian script is what we see in most of the identifiable icons, as several of them are also Astrological symbols specifically as a reference.

 

Colchisian would look (in my mind anyway) more like sanskrit.

[Relict]

For the shoulder pads, I would use black with a layer of Future floor varnish (basically liquid plastic) on top to give it that extra shine. 

 

As for the scripts, they look like distorted Greek to me. The artwork is awesome to look at, but I have yet to see someone execute the scripts well in miniature form. I wonder if there are any decal sheets we can use. 

[Kol Saresk]

I kind of have to wonder. Colchis is meant to be a religious world, sort of like the Old Testament era brought to life. I wonder if its possible that Colchisian isn't a mixture of all the languages involved with the "primary" middle eastern religions, such as yiddish, sanskrit, and aramic(which would have been used to write the Old Testament) and then Konei Greek(which was used to write the New Testament).

[Kilofix]

I kind of have to wonder. Colchis is meant to be a religious world, sort of like the Old Testament era brought to life. I wonder if its possible that Colchisian isn't a mixture of all the languages involved with the "primary" middle eastern religions, such as yiddish, sanskrit, and aramic(which would have been used to write the Old Testament) and then Konei Greek(which was used to write the New Testament).

 

All of which I believe came from Phoenician. So I think I'm going to go to the source and do script that looks like Phoenician. Thanks for the opinions. Sorry if I've come across sounding like a stickler about details.