Garden Ninja Studios

These are some trolls from Super Dungeon Explore (the Mistmourn Coast Warband). As with most of my own Super Dungeon set, I painted each one in its own color scheme. The yellow troll colors I chose because they match the trolls from Fantasy Forest. Fantasy Forest is an old TSR game I played when I ...

One thing that I really love about making wedding cake toppers is all of the original ideas people come up with. This one features a pose that I had never considered for a cake topper before. The bride sent me a photo of the two of them lying down and holding hands (and both of ...

This was my entry for the P3 Grandmasters this year. I didn’t want to push myself as hard to improve my painting this year- mostly because I was dealing with the sleep deprivation that comes with having a newborn. I did, however, want to push myself in terms of basing, and I think that I ...

So I really like board games with cool minis. Two of the board games that I’ve spent the most time playing are Kingdom Death: Monster and Super Dungeon Explore! Both are great games with fantastic minis- although the tones each use could hardly be farther apart. The developers of these games know each other, and ...

For the wedding cake toppers, I offer to make practically anything as a prop for the couple to be holding.  Because of this, I often get to create things that I had really never considered before. Here’s a couple that chose to show their fandom off in a really fun way. I also loved making ...

In the miniatures world, these two small companies both made names for themselves for their fantastic lines of minis.  And later on, both of them started making games. The Kingdom Death booth was fairly packed throughout Gencon.  But unlike last year, they also had things to sell.  They had a few copies of Kingdom Death: ...

Ok, there was an awful lot to see at Gencon, and some booths had so much stuff that I had to take some time.   Ninja Division’s booth has a lot going on- loads of new things for Relic Knights and plenty of Alien vs. Predator stuff to oggle.     There’s a new spaceship ...

I feel like a lot of the toppers that I create are really expressions of “Together Forever No Matter What.” Whether the no matter what entails zombies, dragons, werewolves, goblins ow what have you. In this one, I think it expresses “Together Forever, even if nuclear holocaust forces us to choose between living in vaults ...

I love the tradition where I get minis that my daughter picked out. This is one that she described as “a Squid-Octopus.” Also “He looks like he’s gonna eat me.” I believe he’s supposed to be one of the stranger D&D creatures (a sort of stalagmite that eats the rare creature to walk into a ...

I suppose that a lot of my clients are going for something not quite straight laced at their wedding (although I have done one strictly traditional cake topper and a number of toppers that are a subtle enough to fit in with a traditional atmosphere). Not all of the brides I work with will be ...