Garden Ninja Studios

A decent number of the cake toppers I create are sort of homages to various videogames. My wife and I love playing Borderlands and Halo together, and we often play JRPG together as well (with turn based games, we like to talk through out strategies). I’m really happy when I get to make toppers that ...

I painted these just a little while ago to match a client’s RPG party. They are all 3D prints from Heroforge, where you can choose from a wide array of options for characters. 3d printed minis present a bit of a challenge for painters, as the grain is often visible in a few spots. There ...

Geeks come in quite a lot of variety. And we’re very passionate about the things we love. Sometimes we start feeling at odds with each other- we start arguing about whether Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter or Firefly represents the apex of entertainment. I always think it is funny when we argue about things ...

One of the minis that first got me into gaming was the old Lord of Change. This was a good while back- in those days, a Lord of Change was mounted on a square 40mm base, and wasn’t much larger than the ogres of the day and they fit into a blister pack. The new ...

A lot of the cake toppers that I make have a zombie theme to them. Somehow, it just feels natural that the happy couple defend the top of the cake from the undead. Often, the zombies are made to match members of the wedding party- usually in the groomsmen suits and bridesmaid dresses- but in ...

Here is a set of Tzeentch Daemon characters that I painted for a client. I’ve painted quite a few daemons for this force over time- I find I really love the bright blues and pinks of Tzeentch. Flames are very present throughout the Tzeentch force- but with so many magical flames, the colors for them ...

I met my wife in a weekly Dungeons and Dragons game (and her wedding dress had dragons on it). So if I have been making geek cake toppers back then, this is probably the theme we would have gone with. Here are two couples that used this theme in different ways- one of them added ...

My clients sometimes let me choose the color schemes for characters, and at other times, they prefer to tell me what they’d like. In every case there are always choices for me to make. In this case, I really enjoyed this Half Orc barbarian. I think he was meant to be simply human, but his ...

The custom cake toppers I make can really vary quite a lot. While a lot of my clients prefer one of the poses that I’ve done before, some of them like to do something new. Like this one. I’ve done kissing poses before, but this one is different, and I think it came out very ...

The wedding cake toppers are all custom made for a particular couple. Sometimes, after I’ve posted one, another couple might want something similar, and just want a few changes. In this case, the happy couple loved this Master Chief, but wanted to change his bride to match their wedding colors, and add in their cats. ...