I let my kids each pick out a Blood Bowl team box. I would get half, and they could paint the other half, giving each of us a full Blitz Bowl team. Ruth chose Wood Elves.

Of all the teams I’ve done so far, the Wood Elves offer the most choices, with lots of extra heads and a few arm variants. Blitz Bowl doesn’t double up on models, but it’s still a nice touch.

This is my first elf team for Blitz Bowl. They definitely sell as lithe compared to the humans.

According to the guys at The Crush, the swirl on the top of the thrower’s head is a horn. Well I saw phooey to that, it’s hair.

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The lineman all have mohawks and masks. To help match their status as “regular” players, they all have the same white hair.

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I continued my trend of keeping the coin and token simple. They’re not exciting, but that’s what you get.

The Underworlds Creepers are nearly the perfect Blitz Bowl box. It’s got two different six-model teams, the skaven and goblins. There’s just one problem: the goblin Blitz Bowl team is special and has eight models. I considered filling in the numbers with third party models, or even some of the Forgeworld options. In the end, I kept things simple and bought the four-man goblin expansion GW prime sells. That leaves with two spares.

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To make the team fit in with the skaven, while still being distinct when played as separate teams, I cycled the colors. The skaven had green cloth and purple armor. Goblins have green flesh, purple cloth, and mostly black/metal armor.

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The goblin balls are perhaps the best of the bunch. I especially like the squiq in a ball costume.

The coin and marker got my standard treatment. No-frills, but still clearly team-associated.

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When the Underworlds Creepers box was announced, it seemed nearly perfect for Blitz Bowl. Two half-sized Blood Bowl teams in one box. Thus skaven and goblins became my first expansion Blitz Bowl teams.

I knew I wanted them to work as a combined team, should I ever actually go the Blood Bowl route (or use some of the community rules for the Creepers). Since the goblins would have green skin, I decided on green for the primary cloth color on the skaven.

It was fun to blend the skin tones with fur. I’ve struggled with that in the past, but these show some progress.

One nice thing about the Blood Bowl boxes are the decals. It makes the models less useful as generic fantasy, but the numbers help emphasize up the sports ball aspect of the game.

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Skaven get some fun thematic balls, full of warpstone glowiness.

I continue to not be excited about properly painting up the coin and marker. So they just get a simple wash over a color that matches the team.

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The other half of the Blitz Bowl box is orcs. These guys are nice an meaty, with a far more fantastic appearance than the humans.

The thrower is the most lightly armored (in appearance, anyways) of the group. Much like the humans, I quite appreciate that the pose clearly communicates the position.

I used contrast paints for the skin (Orc Flesh, handily enough), but highlighted after it was dry, and other paints for the rest of the models.

I went through quite an emotional roller coaster while painting the blitzer. At first I thought he had a goofy looking head, perhaps from a few too many head butts. Then, after studying the stat card, I thought I had missed a helmet piece, though the sprue was long gone. Finally, I realized I painted the helmet in skin tones. Oh well, he can keep looking goofy, from too many head butts.

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The linemen fill out the team.

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I completed the accessories in the same way as the humans, though with a red metal for the coin, to match the red primary color on the orc uniforms.