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

Wedding Cake Toppers with Swords!

Nov

12

2021

A lot of the wedding cake toppers that I make represent something the couple loves to do together, a hobby, gaming, fandoms and things like that.I am always quite happy to work with fencers of any kind because they have me make a couple with swords. And these two couples had me use stances that ...

Kingdom Death Phoenixes

Nov

4

2021

I sometimes wonder if there is only one phoenix that is constantly being reborn as it dies, or if there are several members of this elusive species.At any rate, I’ve had the opportunity to paint the Phoenix three times in three different color schemes. Here they are: For this phoenix, I based the color scheme ...

Mumlak the Barbarian Wooly Mammoth

Oct

22

2021

I picked up this mini at Reapercon 2019 intending to paint it up for the next year. As it turned out, I hadn’t started painting it yet when I started packing for Reapercon 2020.So I got to working on it and surprisingly got it finished in time to enter it into the competition (even though ...

Chibi Undead Dragon

Oct

20

2021

Last year, Michael’s craft store had a super excited and cute skeleton dragon for sale, and it conveniently fit onto a 50mm base. Obviously perfect for Super Dungeon.When I started working on it I realized that I wanted some muscle tissue to break up all of the bone all over her. And some purple crystals ...

Blood Bowl Skaven

Sep

30

2021

I’ve been working on some Blood Bowl stuff lately and I realized that I never posted up pictures of these SkavenBlight Scramblers that I painted a while ago.So here they are- Blood Bowl Skaven. The purple was a really fun color to work with, I tried to make sure that the armor had a different ...

Cake Topper on a Cake

Sep

14

2021

Most of the cake toppers that I create are sent to places all over the United States and even many places around the world.This is great- I get to make toppers featuring a lot of different people- but unlike more local based wedding people, I often don’t get to see the cake toppers in their ...

White Gigalion

Sep

10

2021

Kingdom Death’s lion sometimes gets much larger. But you also get to make some really cool stuff once you kill and skin it.As with a lot of miniatures, I really liked to explore the different colors I could add in the shadows and slight coloration in the highlights. So this lion has a lot of ...

A bit more Marvel United

Aug

20

2021

Here are some more of those fantastic chibis from Marvel United that I’ve painted.For the characters in black (Venom and Black Panther) I looked at quite a few comics to see how they normally expressed this. There’s a reason why so many black superhero costumes end up turning blue after a few issues, but these ...

Geek Wedding Cake Toppers

Jul

30

2021

Fandoms today are connecting in a way that they couldn’t for past generations, and that has brought a lot of geeks together.The cake toppers are all made to order, and that means that there are tons of possibilities for them. This first couple met playing Dungeons and Dragons and wanted a twenty sided die and ...

More Chibi Superheroes for Marvel United

Jul

16

2021

As I’ve been painting the fun minis from Marvel United, I’ve been trying different ways to simulate a comic book style in a really dynamic way. So I’ve been using a lot of extra black lines to simulate two dimensional art and added in some really dynamic colors in the shadows with a sort of ...