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

Families that Slay Zombies Together…

Jul

19

2019

This was an interesting cake topper. Like many that I’ve made, this was involved a bride and groom fighting off the zombies.But this time, they had a son fighting alongside them. You don’t really get to choose whether to bring a kid like that into the apocalypse, so the best thing would be to gear ...

Stuffed Fables Extra Stuffies

Jul

12

2019

I really enjoy Stuffed Fables- and I also enjoy the miniatures quite a lot.One thing that I thought was fun was that Stuffed Fables got some neat mini expansions for downloading. There’s a fun extra story that fits in the middle of the campaign, and the Stuffed Fables coloring book.The coloring book features each Stuffy ...

Chibi Alt Nether Elves

Jun

28

2019

At some point, the folks at Soda Pop Miniatures decided to create alternate stats for some of their core box monsters.They started off with alternates that really just change the color schemes (so we have purple and blue kobolds rather than just the red ones) but they eventually started altering the core concepts more and ...

WW2 Zombies Cake Topper

Jun

14

2019

This is a cake topper that I made for a couple that met through playing Call of Duty: Zombies. Naturally, they wanted their cake topper to be fighting zombies wearing World War 2 uniforms.Couples like this make me so happy.I had a lot of fun researching the uniforms for the topper. I posed the one ...

King of Tokyo

May

27

2019

King of Tokyo is a fun and short game about Kaiju monsters battling it out over their favorite city.The game comes with some nice standees- which I am keeping to use when I feel like transporting the game easily. But I’ve always thought that the game could use some nice miniatures instead.So I set out ...

Kingdom Death White Lion 1

May

17

2019

A lot of painters see painting white as a difficulty. It is tricky to shade white and still make it look like white, and it is even trickier to make it look interesting at the same time. Painters worry that too much shading might make it look grey, and having too much color in the ...

The Faceless

May

9

2019

The Faceless is a neat game with some really interesting miniatures.The player token is a compass, and all of the miniatures have magnets in them to manipulate what direction the compass points. When the players move, they have to follow the compass direction.It is a really neat game, and most of the minis are little ...

Fandom Cake Topper

May

3

2019

I really love the ways in which my cake topper clients are able to express their different fandoms.In this case, we have two very popular settings collide. I’m also quite fond of the dress she chose.

Arena Rex Vargr and Bjarrhvit

Apr

19

2019

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.

Zombie Wedding Cake Topper

Apr

12

2019

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 ...