Garden Ninja Studios

I make a lot of cake toppers for some very different people. It is great to see all of the varied ideas people have for them. So I think it goes without saying that I never expected to be making an Alpaca for anyone’s wedding. Yep, that’s an alpaca with goggles joining these two in ...

Just a little while ago, I got to paint up a full force of Stormcast Eternals riding various drakes. I was a little surprised by just how many Stardrakes fit into the force, and there were quite a number of Dracothian Guard as well (I only got a couple of them photographed). Here they are ...

I met my wife at the game store at a weekly role playing game. I had just moved into town, and the first thing I did was check out the local comic shops- and the ‘manager’ invited me to game on Thursday. That group is still close, and we still play every Thursday (although a ...

It has been a little while since I’ve posted one of these. These are Kingdom Death characters re-imagined as Chibis. The concept came about because of the crossover Kingdom Death did with Super Dungeon Explore, and it has kind of just gone from there. I really love mixing the very dark setting of Kingdom Death ...

I often get to paint up forces in some pretty interesting color schemes, and here’s a nice example. This force was going with an all blue theme- the core color for Tzeentch. The part that made it really shine was the fact that most of the minis were affiliated with other chaos factions. So, if ...

Creating wedding cake toppers offers me a lot of artistic variety. There are a lot of different things that people want to put on their cakes, and it always impresses me that after almost ten years of doing this, I can still be surprised at some of the awesome ideas I get to make into ...

Given my studio name, I probably shouldn’t have been surprised the first time that someone asked me for a Ninja themed Wedding Cake Topper. As with all of the cake topper themes, after one was made, other people found the concept irresistible enough to request their own. And over time, I’ve done a few different ...

When I saw this particular mini, I really couldn’t help but think of him as Willy Wonka. And what’s to do after that aside from create a groovy little diorama to match? His arms are also re-sculpted because I don’t think that Willy needed a weapon

The Geek Wedding Cake Toppers that I make started out when a couple asked me if I could create Zombies for them, and then the happy couple fighting off the zombies. This continues to be a strong theme for weddings- sometimes I also create zombies climbing the cake (often made to look like bridesmaids and ...

Here are a couple of fun little minis I painted up from The Forgotten King set. I’m not sure that there’s much more to say about them. The NMM was fun: