Garden Ninja Studios

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Back when I was much younger, the very first miniatures game that I got into was Space Crusade.Space Crusade was kind of a sequel to Hero Quest. It was a joint project from Milton Bradley and Games Workshop, and it is a dungeon crawl through a Space Hulk with squads of space marines fighting against ...

Here are some farmers that I got to paint up for Guild Ball.I haven’t played the game myself, but the minis had a lot of expression.This is one of the earlier sets from Steamforged’s move to plastic.

Well, here are a few cake toppers that I made that I’ve been pretty proud of. They were each for different clients who had different takes on some of their favorite characters.

Sometimes people ask if I’m contacted by grooms or brides more often. I think it is actually close to half and half, with the brides contacting me just a little more often.The very first one I did was a groom who wanted to surprise his bride with a topper where he wore a gas mask ...

I’ve often loved the Death Guard- they’re one of the forces that I first played in 40k- back when there weren’t enough Death Guard minis, so I had to convert horrific mutation on normal marine minis.The current lineup of minis for them are really impressive- the best they’ve ever had. For the color schemes on ...