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

The Wurmspat

Oct

16

2020

Warhammer Underworlds is great for having small groups of great characters from the Age of Sigmar setting.Here is the Nurgle warband- the Wurmspat

Metallic Fun with Greyknight Rhinos

Oct

14

2020

A lot of top painters have spent many years devising and revising new ways to portray metal objects on miniatures. We were all very impressed by early non-metallic metals, and later when the methods developed for NMM were refined with more precise reflections and bounce lighting. One of the more recent innovations include a lot ...

Aftermath Heroes and Bosses

Oct

8

2020

Aftermath is a dungeon crawler board game that is the heir to both Mice and Mystics and Stuffed Fables.The game takes place in a post apocalyptic world where rodents have formed colonies to scrounge resources for survival, cobbling together the things they need.For the set, I went with a lot of textures and a lot ...

Fan Cake Toppers

Oct

2

2020

I always love working with the cake topper ideas my clients bring me.A lot of cake toppers follow a single theme, usually expressing their fandom in a certain direction, but some couples prefer to have something that expresses a number of the fandoms they belong to.Here’s an example of exactly that kind of topper, with ...

Super Dungeon Bosses

Sep

25

2020

Evil has many faces, even when it is kind of cute. Here are some of the generals working under the Dark Consul. They represent the highest caliber of evil in Super Dungeon Explore. This is a set of bosses for Super Dungeon Explore that I painted for a client. This gnome has gone mad with ...

Half Dragon Gelatinous Cube!

Sep

16

2020

Ok, this is a mini that I made as a joke for a friend of mine. He GMs a lot of games, and has always been a bit fascinated by the fact that the Half Dragon template can be added to almost any kind of creature. Including ones that reproduce by dividing.Truly, the biology of ...

Cell Shaded Battletech

Sep

15

2020

These old Battletech miniatures were painted using some fairly recent techniques I’ve generally seen referred to as “Comic Book Style Painting.”In addition to normal dark lining, I added dark edging to areas that would normally be the highest highlights on the minis. This creates an interesting cell shaded effect.These particular minis were painted to match ...

Video Game Cake Toppers

Sep

11

2020

I really love working with some of the neat ideas my clients give me for wedding cake toppers.And since they’re all custom made, my clients often come up with a way to make them all interesting and unique.Here’s one based on an elven couple that I’ve done before, with a few different variants below.

Hollow Knight Miniature

Sep

3

2020

I love so many of the indie metroidvania games that have been released over the past few years, and I’m super excited about the upcoming sequel to Hollow Knight.While I often create my own customs for video game tribute minis, this one was a sculpt by Chibi Riot Creations (who also did a terrific chibi ...

Final Fantasy Chibis

Aug

28

2020

One of the things that I really enjoy doing with chibi miniatures is creating tributes to classic video games.The style lends itself to this so well that often all that I really need to do is pick a color scheme that fits. For others, I create more elaborate conversions.When I decided to create the Light ...