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

Chibi Entries at Reapercon

Sep

4

2019

I really love to attend Reapercon. Of the whole convention circuit, it is the one most focused on miniature painting (with all of the classes and events geared very much toward painting.The crowning event of the convention is the painting competition. Each miniature is ranked individually (and can be awarded a bronze, silver or gold ...

House Pride Wedding Cake Toppers

Aug

15

2019

I’ve done a number of cake toppers where brides and grooms (especially brides) have had me give them house scarves, and often wands to go with them.I’ve really enjoyed making them, and I really like seeing what house they’ve been sorted into. So far, I’ve had brides from all four of the original houses, but ...

Flower Knight

Aug

7

2019

There are a lot of different takes on the Flower Knight. This makes sense, it is an absolutely brilliant miniature.There are a lot of different ways you can go with him that would work. For this one, I went with a more muted interpretation and mix of oxidized gold and steel armor with sort of ...

The Shimmering Phoenix of Kingdom Death

Aug

2

2019

A little while ago, I got a full set of metallic paints in vibrant primary colors. I immediately felt like there was huge potential to this- you could use them to add all sorts of extra depth and interest to True Metallic techniques.And one of the things that struck me was the idea that you ...

Wedding Cake Toppers Standing Zombie Remains

Jul

30

2019

The first wedding cake toppers that I made all involved Zombies.Over the years, I’ve made quite a few more, but I definitely have a love for the zombie survivor wedding cake toppers.One of the variants that a client had me create was that rather than create zombies that climb the cake, we just have a ...

Papa Nurgle’s Rust

Jul

26

2019

Papa Nurgle’s Rust Something about Nurgle is always fun. Maybe it is the way that steel aspects start having flesh like diseases.One of the main aesthetics of this force was the rust. For most of the metals, I created a very rusted surfaces with only chips of shining metal showing through. I’ve become very fond ...

Families that Slay Zombies Together…

Jul

19

2019

This was an interesting cake topper. Like many that I’ve made, this was involved a bride and groom fighting off the zombies.But this time, they had a son fighting alongside them. You don’t really get to choose whether to bring a kid like that into the apocalypse, so the best thing would be to gear ...

Stuffed Fables Extra Stuffies

Jul

12

2019

I really enjoy Stuffed Fables- and I also enjoy the miniatures quite a lot.One thing that I thought was fun was that Stuffed Fables got some neat mini expansions for downloading. There’s a fun extra story that fits in the middle of the campaign, and the Stuffed Fables coloring book.The coloring book features each Stuffy ...

Chibi Alt Nether Elves

Jun

28

2019

At some point, the folks at Soda Pop Miniatures decided to create alternate stats for some of their core box monsters.They started off with alternates that really just change the color schemes (so we have purple and blue kobolds rather than just the red ones) but they eventually started altering the core concepts more and ...

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 ...