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

Halo Master Chief Wedding Cake topper

Feb

21

2020

Halo was the first FPS that I played with my wife, so I feel like I really get people who would like it displayed on top of their wedding cake. Here are two very different sets of Halo statues that I made to top wedding cakes.

Adeptus Titanicus Miniatures

Feb

5

2020

When I first started collecting miniatures, Games Workshop had two scales for their Warhammer 40,000 universe- there was their normal gaming scale (about 28mm) and their Epic scale for games like Space Marine and later Titan Legions.The cool thing about the smaller scale was that the games could include the absolutely massive giant robots that ...

Chibi Gloomhaven Bosses

Jan

10

2020

Gloomhaven is a little bit absurd. Since Isaac Childres was including standees rather than miniatures, he really didn’t feel like he was very restricted in the number of monsters to include in the game.The result is that turning all of Gloomhaven into a chibi game requires that I make over two hundred and fifty miniatures.Yeah- ...

Fandom Wedding Cake Topper

Jan

6

2020

A lot of my clients have me create fandoms that express their personal interests. And sometimes, the brides and groom’s don’t represent the same fandoms.Here is an example of one of these cake toppers where the bride and groom come from different fan groups.

Screaming Antelope

Jan

2

2020

The Screaming Antelope is one of the core monsters of Kingdom Death: Monster. And the fact that you can get so many fine resources from it makes it one of the most hunted creatures in the setting.For this paintjob, I wanted to move away from both the grey standard color scheme for the antelope and ...

Chibi Twilight Knight

Dec

13

2019

Ok, I love making Chibis for Kingdom Death, but I also appreciate it when other sculptors take up the mantle and make a wonderful chibi version of a Kingdom Death character.This miniature was sculpted by Brian Phelp[s of Chibitriot Creations, and I had a great time painting him. I did not use the base that ...

Kingdom Death Butcher

Dec

6

2019

Kingdom Death miniatures remain some of the very best in board games- even the older ones from the core box set.This is the Butcher. While he is normally painted in a very dark color pallet, I chose to use some lighter colors on him (especially for his fur). Overall, I think this worked quite well. ...

TARDIS Wedding Cake Toppers

Nov

27

2019

I’ve always loved Doctor Who, and the idea of leaving a wedding reception in the most advanced time travelling ship in the universe is pretty fantastic.And it seems that I’m not the only one who thinks that’s the case. Here are some cake toppers I made for some other couples who feel the same way.

Ork Looted Titan Claw

Nov

8

2019

Orks are terrific, aren’t they? While the aesthetics and logic behind most 40k factions tries to toe the line between Full Blanche and minimally plausible weapons of war, the Space Orks just embrace the most absurd logic (a red paint job actually makes it go faster).This conversion was created by my client- and I really ...

Kissing Gamers Wedding Cake Topper

Nov

1

2019

The way I started making wedding cake toppers was kind of a process. Really, it started out with someone realizing that I could sculpt, and asking me to make a cake topper with a zombie bride and groom in a gas mask. It was very romantic.After I made that one, other people came to me ...