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I’ve been making zombie survivor cake toppers for brides and grooms for a while now, and somehow I feel that there’s a lot to be said about the weapons they choose. Firstly, I’d like to thank The Walking Dead for pointing out to us just how useful a crossbow is when fighting zombies. Sure, the ...

This is an adventuring party I created for the Iron Kingdoms RPG. Our group has been playing for years, but this is the first time we’ve really gotten into playing Menites (there’s an issue of them not playing well with non-humans). Our group started their own order of knights who like to emphasize that “there’s ...

While Zombie survivors have still made up the majority of the cake toppers that I do, there have definitely been a nice rise in the number of cake toppers that express the bride and groom’s love of videogames. Here are a few examples. We’ll start out with the Steampunk Halo Spartans, and move from there:

I’ve been doing custom cake toppers for a long time for lots of couples that want something less traditional, but I have always been surprised that I haven’t had very many same gender couples. It just seemed that is a fairly large group that has been ignored by more traditional cake toppers for a long ...

Here is Meloda, from the Darklands range of minis. I generally think of Mierce as a manufacturer of big crazy monsters (and that is definitely a thing that they are- stay tuned, I’ve got another to show off soon). But here is one of their human characters. From their line, she is probably the least ...

The zombie survivor brides and grooms are definitely the most popular of the cake toppers that I make, and I really love it when I get a chance to do a whole set together for combat. They really feel complete to me when the whole zombie battling scene plays out on the top tier of ...

Chibi miniatures have been making a big splash in the gaming world ever since Soda Pop first showed off their Super Dungeon minis at Gencon. Since then, they’ve grown into a whole style of miniatures that strongly contradicts the Grim and/or Dark traditions that so many miniature lines follow. I mean, they’re just so dang ...

Here is my take on Super Dungeon’s Vampiric boss fight. I painted him as a practice for doing really harsh top down lighting- but I realized a little too late that I had basically decided to blend all of his areas from black to white. I worked on him for quite some time, before giving ...

The kissing gamers seems to have become one of the most popular poses I’ve done for our brides and grooms. It figures, I guess. They’re so cute, and they fit in well with even the most traditional of wedding cakes while still adding that extra personality. Here are a few I’ve done recently. Of late, ...

Here is my Austrican from Relic Knights. The largest of the Shattered Sword Paladins, this mini was definitely one of my favorites from the Kickstarter. I had a lot of fun with his face- the harsh lines gave me plenty of room to make high contrast areas that really pop. He really has the same ...