Brace yourself; the Norse are coming!

One of the teams I'd considered painting up for the Tournament was the Norse.  My biggest problem was that the Norse roster has changed since I bought the figures in the late 90s (wow, that's like almost five years ago!).  The roster I bought had four Catchers and four Blitzers.  Since then, the position names have changed (a lot), the team can only buy two each Blitzers and Catchers, but can get two Werewolves.

So I was short two wolves.  Fortunately, yesterday I was able to acquire two ridiculously awesome wolves.  Just look at these guys:

... just LOOK at those models!  They look fast, dynamic, strong, and intimidating - just what the Norse Werewolves are supposed to be!  Cool enough that I now really want to paint the team just so I can use them!

Here are the rest of the team:

Generally I'll only have one (or zero) throwers, but they're cheap enough - if I want two, I'll be able to get two.  Heck, worst comes to worst, a mercenary thrower with Leader is a pretty decent inducement for 150k ...

Blitzers aka Berserkers are pretty awesome killers, but losing two to get Werewolves (aka Ulfwereners) is probably an upgrade.  I plan to always start with both Wolves, and might not always start with both Zerkers.  But in the end, solid and scary players.

You can see the one lineman that I started painting waaaay back in the day.  Once I finish, he'll probably have the record for longest time from start to finish ... "It took me 15 years!!!".  ish.  Not sure when I actually started.

The cheerleaders!  Don't worry, they'll be hot.  Once they actually get onto bases.  These girls are going to be necessary too.  Bad enough that I picked the team with probably the most exposed skin, despite the fact that I hate painting skin ... without the cheerleaders, it would just be a little too much of a homoerotic experience, highlighting every last ab, bicep, and quad on the shirtless Norse ...

Oh yeah, the Catchers!  They've actually improved somewhat since I bought them, but they're still slow-ish (for catchers, MV7 is still not bad).  They also don't start with Catch, getting Dauntless instead.  I think they're now less Catchers now and more "Utility Blitzers".  But I guess I'll find out when I actually play them ...

I will also eventually need a Yeti (aka Yhetee, aka Snow Troll).  Warmachine makes a fantasy game called Hordes which has a surprisingly diverse selection of models suitable to be "Blood Bowl Big Guys".  They actually have a model for a "Winter Troll":

... but since I'm already sort of going with a wolf theme, I was thinking of getting their "Feral Warpwolf":

I'd paint it all white and snowy-looking to fit the theme.  There's no real consensus anyway on what a Yeti looks like ... I don't think there are any official models for it.  But they have Claws (check), Frenzy (check), Wild Animal (check), and Disturbing Presence (would YOU be able to concentrate on throwing or catching the ball when this guy was near you??).  So it seems to fit.

It'll be a while before I'm buying a Yeti anyway so no rush here ...

I'm going to need a color scheme which will fit both wolves and human players.  I'm thinking of going with a medium gray (which will look awesome as wolf fur) and crimson or burgundy to contrast.  I imagine the end effect looking something like Mississippi State. 

I'll keep you all posted!