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

Optimus Prime

Jun

26

2020

This is a neat minis from Wiz Kids of Optimus Prime. I really think a lot of our tabletop miniatures games draw inspiration from some of those old cartoons from the ’80s. But it seems like only recently we’ve started taking the natural step and to gaming with miniatures of those old cartoon heroes (with ...

Chaos Space Marines

Jun

24

2020

Here are a few minis from some of the varies Chaos Space Marine armies that I’ve painted for Warhammer 40,000.I’ve always loved chaos for the variety of themes that they use, which can suggest a lot of great paintjobs and conversions. These are from a Nurgle force that I painted. For these minis, I went ...

Hover Tank

May

19

2020

This is a vehicle that I painted up for Seedy Tea Publishing. I rather liked working with it and within their setting- everything is pretty dirty and damaged, and the bases can have wreckage and detritus spread around.I created this base for the tank using a number of different pieces bits and a little bit ...

Combat Ready Wedding Cake Toppers

May

12

2020

The first wedding cake toppers that I made featured the bride and groom as zombies. But since then, most of my clients prefered to be on the living side of the zombie apocalypse, and eventually they started branching out in genres a little.Here are a few cake toppers that feature brides and grooms that are ...

Happy Star Wars Day!

May

4

2020

It is May the Forth, and we all know that that means!Star Wars Day (yay).This is a repost of a diorama I did a few years ago. One of the best compliments I got on it back then was “Can you please post a pic of this in normal lighting conditions?” (these pictures were taken ...

Keeper of Secrets

Apr

10

2020

The Greater Daemons have always been some of the very best minis that Games Workshop produces.While the other greater demons have mostly gone just scaled up and modernized their look, the Keeper of Secrets has really changed form over the years.I find the current concept to be the best that they’ve made yet by a ...

Wreck Age Minis

Apr

3

2020

Here is a set of Wreck Age minis that took me a while to get posted.I really wanted to emphasize the worn, dirty and rusted nature of these post apocalyptic warriors, and I went pretty far with that aesthetic. Most of the metals were painted primarily in rust. This girl is the only one that ...

More Chibi Kingdom Death

Mar

13

2020

Here are a couple more Chibi Kingdom Death minis that I’ve created.This first one is a Watcher. For the watcher, I feel like black robes are pretty standard, even though the artwork for him was in brown and blue. Since I had previously made one for a client in black, I decided to do this ...

Lords of Change

Mar

6

2020

The Lord of Change has been one of my favorite minis ever since I first got into miniatures. Maybe it is that they kind of remind me of The Dark Crystal’s Skeksis, but I have always loved the strange bird daemon.And unlike many characters, I’ve continued to love them through the many redesigns that they’ve ...

Halo Master Chief Wedding Cake topper

Feb

21

2020

Halo was the first FPS that I played with my wife, so I feel like I really get people who would like it displayed on top of their wedding cake. Here are two very different sets of Halo statues that I made to top wedding cakes.