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Here’s the prototypes for a male and female Sombra. C+C is welcome.



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Greetings to my master, may The Beloved Emperor continue to shield your life from day to day in his service. My gratitude to Him and his servants the White Scars for the impeccable intervention during the Josat Raids. By the powers of Librarian Ka’rasha we have captured one of the raiders alive, and his subsequent interrogations under Ka’rasha’s mental press have yielded an hundred fold the information we previously possessed regarding this strange and loathsome xenos.

The Sombra are a race of nomads, moving in small tribes across the galaxy, stealing and plundering the resources of whatever system they inhabit before moving on to the next. Their unique physiology allows them to phase part or even their entire body into warpspace, allowing them to pass through normal matter without interacting with it. We were unable to uncover the exact mechanism which makes this possible, but I am confident that with further test subjects and study The Emperor will reveal this truth to us. According to comments made my Ka’rasha, the Sombra are surprisingly resistant to warp influence, and the librarian was only able to restrain the prisoner’s abilities with great efforts. This seems to be the result of…(entry purged, Inquisitional reference 41J6848.69A845W8)

During his interrogation, the prisoner made several references to a ceremony they call The Parting, which we believe is the means by which an entire tribe will open a localized rift and shift themselves to a nearby star system. It is unknown how much control they have over their destination, but surely this tribe would not have come to a world as heavily fortified as Josat intentionally. The most rational explanation…(entry purged, Inquisitional reference 31J6548.69B844W2)…We believe this is the reason no Sombra spacecraft have ever been documented to this date.

Having no written language, they pass their history and traditions through hundreds of epic songs and dances. Whenever possible a tribe will gather around a roaring bonfire each night, and perform one of the tales. The elegance of their dances and the power of their music has been noted by Imperial Scouts that have happened upon such events.

If they simply kept to themselves, their presence on a world would probably go unfelt and unnoticed, but culturally they are a decadent and lethargic people, and their greed leads them to steal greater and greater quantities of resources and valuables from the local population until a confrontation in inevitably provoked.

There appears to be little to no communication between tribes, except during The Gathering Council, which is preformed once every generation. The shamans each tribe journey alone to…(entry purged, Inquisitional reference 71D6508.69W844QQ2) Upon their return, the Shaman will select his or her predecessor and will then immediately perish. His remains will then be cremated and ingested by each member of the tribe except the new Elder Shaman, who will abstain for unknown reasons.

Though they prefer to avoid open warfare, the Sombra are swift and violent when provoked by anger or greed. They are masters of ambush and lightning raids. Imperial commanders on Josat commented that they fought Sombra war-packs for weeks without ever actually seeing their opponents. They fight almost exclusively in close combat, their unique physiology giving them a distinct advantage over any opponent. A skilled Sombra warrior will flicker in and out of reality as they fight, allowing blades and shots to pass harmlessly through, then returning to realspace to deliver a killing blow with a vast array of plundered bladed weapons. Against armored opponents, Sombra warriors have been known to phase the blade of their weapon and press it into the chest cavity of their opponent, then return it to realspace. On Josat, even the mighty armor of the Adeptus Astartes offered little protection from these foul xenos. But, by The Emperor’s grace and the unparalleled ferocity of his Angels of Death, the xenos were driven off a mere 23 standard hours after the arrival of the White Scars.

Traditionally the Sombra have been classified as threat level Non, as their small numbers and disinterest in conquest makes them little more then a parasite even on a sector scale. It is my and recommendation, however, that their threat status be restated as Mino. Doing so will allow greater resources to be allocated to me and my faction to confront and study. It is my belief that with greater research the Sombra’s shifting abilities could be…(entry purged, Inquisitional reference 43R6718.600004NB9)

All glory to Our Beloved Emperor, Magos Kilmari


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Okay, a little Q and A

Q: What are the models made from
A: Wood Elf legs, Dark Elf Torsos, Dryad Heads, various arms and capes. I will not have a single way of making them, as I want them to look very rag-tag, so I’ll be using bits from all over to make them

Q: How are they going to be painted?
A: The plan is to give them a blue-grey skin tone (their head tentacles are kinda inspired by the twi’lik from Star Wars) With earthy autum tones on their clothes, and rusty colors on their gear.

Q: What rules will you use on the table top?
A: Probably Dark Eldar rules, a DE webportal list without any tanks is fairly close to their fighting style.

I like the fluff,most of the important stuff purged by the inquisition.Very Imperial.LOL,good work can't wait to see them painted.

Nice bro, looks like a great project.

Maybe you should represent them using a wyche cult DE list. Since the wyches 4+ invuln in CC would represent their 'phase shifting' well enough.

Nice conversions, although right now they look a little too fantasy... maybe some more bits to make them look sci-fi? The ammo belts and grenades are a nice touch but quite subtle and difficult to spot at first. Will they use guns? A Rifle or two might help...

Then again a lot can be achieved with paint, so they may look very futuristic once painted.

Interesting, space gypsies, eh?

warpcrafter wrote:Interesting, space gypsies, eh?

Yup.

maybe some more bits to make them look sci-fi? The ammo belts and grenades are a nice touch but quite subtle and difficult to spot at first. Will they use guns? A Rifle or two might help...

Yes, I agree I need to give them guns. Since they steal from everybody, I can really go to town with my bitz box.

Maybe you should represent them using a wyche cult DE list. Since the wyches 4+ invuln in CC would represent their 'phase shifting' well enough.

OMG, I had forgotten about that. Yes, you are right, that list is perfect for them. Consider it done.

If they are a space fareing race they need to have a written language, or adopt a script from another race to use to represent it; how else can they read computer screens?

Carlovonsexron wrote:If they are a space fareing race they need to have a written language, or adopt a script from another race to use to represent it; how else can they read computer screens?

Because they don't need space ships to travel from world to world.

Interesting concept... Really liking the idea, but as others have said you need to anchor them more firmly into the 40K universe.
What are you doing for vehicles?

Xanthos wrote:
What are you doing for vehicles?

At the moment the idea is for them to be infantry only, but I have two ideas for vehicles in case I decide to make some:

1) Bantha type creatures with howdas.

2) Modified Tau vehicles traded with the Tau Empire. (Imagine a Dark Eldar Raider built out of tau components)

I greatly prefer this to your female space marines. The use of dryad heads is rather interesting as the whole squidy tencley aestetic hasn't been really explored much in the 40K universe, however the heads dont really fit with the rest of the body as the bodies look rather human.

Doctor Thunder wrote:

Carlovonsexron wrote:If they are a space fareing race they need to have a written language, or adopt a script from another race to use to represent it; how else can they read computer screens?

Because they don't need space ships to travel from world to world.

Those darn Inquisitors made it hard for me to recognize that. (So hard in fact, that I didnt )

That said, I like the concept of them alot, though if I ever adopted them, I'd give them a much more sci-fi flavor, and much less fantasy flavor (which is what the warp is, IMO- allowing for fantasy type elements in a sci-fi setting). Thats just my taste though- I like futurisitc spaceships and space battles in my Sci-fi, and certainly wouldnt begrudge anyone who likes it in reverse

You've certainly set my mind ablaze with possibilities for aliens utilizing the dryad heads though!

Dang, that is so sexy I will have to go get some Dryads now

Very impressive.

Those are pure awesome. Quick question: do wyches have power weapons? If not, try and find some mechanic that gives you a lot of power weps - bloodletters spring to mind, having power weps, invun save, and they teleport to the battlefield, so you could use the daemons 'dex as another option.
And two ideas for the fluff: almost nothing would be able to spend that much time in contact with the warp and go unchanged, either internally or externally, so they would all be either mutated or weak psykers, or both.
You could make them slightly similar to kroot, stealing genetic material from their prey, as that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the models you made.

And that's my 2 cents. Looking forward to the rest!

Good conversions hopefully the DE codex will come out soon.

Okay, I got a lot of comments that the models needed more sci-fi bitz, so with these two I tried to do that. Since these are gypsy thieves, I want each one to be as unique as possible. I was surprised at how much taller the new Dark Elf models are compared to the Wood Elf models, but luckily since these are aliens I can have some tall and some shorter without causing any real visual problems so long as I include a line in their fluff about their diverse height.

C+C is welcome.

And here I was thinking you could make an alright conversion without greenstuffing huge tits on.

Lucifer Fellblade wrote:And here I was thinking you could make an alright conversion without greenstuffing huge tits on.

Don't worry, I'm trying to keep their bustlines more subtle this time.

Why do they need breasts?
Just because they are humanoid does not mean that they are Mammals.
Although this doesn't mean it is wrong, it's just my two pence.

Goliath wrote:Why do they need breasts?
Just because they are humanoid does not mean that they are Mammals.

No, you're right. There's no reason why I had to give them mamalian traits. They are fictional aliens, so I could have made them any number of ways.

It just seemed like the easiest way to distinguish between the genders, and I had a lot of Dark Eldar torsos lying around that I wanted to use.

Although you could explain the difference in size by saying that the larger models are all females.
As per spiders and praying mantises

Right now it just looks like dryad heads stuck onto wood/dark elf bits.

NEEDS MOAR BEWBS!

Pretty neat. Minor xenos are always a nice change of pace.

You may want to make sure they don't get too similar to the Kroot, they have a similar sort of feel to them already.

Doctor Thunder wrote:Here’s the prototypes for a male and female Sombra. C+C is welcome.


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look pretty cool, and it's nice to see someone thinking through how to get both male AND female minis.

I like them, shows what can be done with a simple head swap.

GW is funny, Elfs/Space Elfs are pretty co-ed but armies that are supposed to be co-ed like the IG have no female minis.

My thanks to everyone who has given their input. This project is still in the experimental stage, so I've tried out a number of your ideas, such as a couple of Sombra who have looted tau and IG gear, as well as using smaller pistols.

C+C welcome.

those look realy cool! However I find the guy with the Catachan chest sticks out like a sore thumb.

If they aren't related to humans, why are they humanoids with an identical facial structure...and breasts?

I don't think the warp works that way. It's not something you fade in and out of, it's pretty distinctly separate. Even the warp spiders use portals (in about half of the fiction and art). The only thing with a similar ability is a C'Tan, and they don't fade in and out, they just screw with the atomic structure of things around them.

Neat patchwork look to the army though, and the fluff thing isn't big or definite enough to matter.