Garden Ninja Studios

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 ...

My wife took my four year old to the game store right before my birthday. This has become quite the tradition for us, and this time she came back with a pumkin golem. I guess she had been listening when I mentioned that my wife always seems to claim the pumpkin characters. He’s already appeared ...

I make a lot of zombies for wedding cakes. A lot of them are simply zombies, and I get to decide the details. Many of them are designed to match specific people- most often the bridesmaids and groomsmen as zombies. One time, I even made the father of the bride as a zombie. This couple ...

I was given a fairly open project a little while ago- just take a daemon prince kit and make sure he ends up nurgle aligned. With the daemon prince kit, I’ve found that a head swap goes a very long way, so I chose a head from my bits box- it comes from a Crypt ...

Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of interesting new poses to create, and this was definitely one I wouldn’t mind doing more. Also, I’ve been hearing a little more about how some of the couples that I work for met. I’m a little surprised how many met through Xbox live- although I shouldn’t be. Some ...

Here’s a rendition of the old version of the Despoiler. With Forge World’s newer rendition of him (in their Horus Heresy line) it is easy to overlook the older one. For one thing, he’s smaller than you would expect from a character in terminator armor- but he fit right in back when he was first ...

It is important for most of the brides I work with that we match her wedding dress, but on the other hand, the groom’s outfit is often less important (unless he’s in the military- those guys make sure I get it right). But here’s an instance where I got to paint up a pin stripped ...

Here are a couple Relic Knights minis that I got painted up a bit ago, but for some reason never got around to posting them. Navarre Hauer and Rook

I’ve read the zombie survival guide, and while I haven’t necessarily started stockpiling arms and watching the news for signs of outbreak cover-ups, I’ve definitely made myself familiar with what makes a good anti-zombie weapon. Accuracy and silence. As almost any non-head shot will result in a maimed zombie at best, it is important to ...