Garden Ninja Studios ← Professional painting of wargaming minis + geek cake toppers

WW2 Zombies Cake Topper

Jun

14

2019

This is a cake topper that I made for a couple that met through playing Call of Duty: Zombies. Naturally, they wanted their cake topper to be fighting zombies wearing World War 2 uniforms.Couples like this make me so happy.I had a lot of fun researching the uniforms for the topper. I posed the one ...

King of Tokyo

May

27

2019

King of Tokyo is a fun and short game about Kaiju monsters battling it out over their favorite city.The game comes with some nice standees- which I am keeping to use when I feel like transporting the game easily. But I’ve always thought that the game could use some nice miniatures instead.So I set out ...

Kingdom Death White Lion 1

May

17

2019

A lot of painters see painting white as a difficulty. It is tricky to shade white and still make it look like white, and it is even trickier to make it look interesting at the same time. Painters worry that too much shading might make it look grey, and having too much color in the ...

The Faceless

May

9

2019

The Faceless is a neat game with some really interesting miniatures.The player token is a compass, and all of the miniatures have magnets in them to manipulate what direction the compass points. When the players move, they have to follow the compass direction.It is a really neat game, and most of the minis are little ...

Fandom Cake Topper

May

3

2019

I really love the ways in which my cake topper clients are able to express their different fandoms.In this case, we have two very popular settings collide. I’m also quite fond of the dress she chose.

Arena Rex Vargr and Bjarrhvit

Apr

19

2019

It is always a pleasure to paint Arena Rex minis. The sculpting is always brilliant, and the casting does it justice.Here are a couple from the Zephyri school of combat.

Zombie Wedding Cake Topper

Apr

12

2019

When I first started making wedding cake toppers, it started out with zombies.The first few cake toppers that I made were all about fighting the zombies (or the couple as zombies). I loved the idea then, and I still love creating zombies to fight a couple defending the top of a cake.These two met playing ...

Kingdom Death Chibi- People of the Sun

Mar

29

2019

The Chibi Kingdom Death project continues.The Sunstalker campaign features the People of the Sun- an alternate group you could start out with that have some nods to Japanese clothing styles and weaponry. They’re quite distinct from the usual Kingdom Death survivors.These people live in the shadow of an ancient Sunstalker and raise its young in ...

Video Gamer Wedding Cake Toppers

Mar

14

2019

A lot of the couples that I get to work for play video games together. That matches me and my wife too- we’ll even find ways to play single player games together (we’re especially fond of the Persona series).I get to make a lot of really unique wedding cake toppers for fans of some very ...

Kingdom Death: Lion Knight

Mar

8

2019

Kingdom Death make such strange and interesting miniatures. It is really refreshing how much their line doesn’t look like things we’ve seen so many times before.This is the Lion Knight- in game terms, he’s an actor who comes into the settlement with his entourage to perform a play for everyone. He casts settlement members in ...