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

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 ...

Marvel United

Jul

1

2021

Just a little while ago, CMON delivered their Marvel United game filled with wonderful super hero chibi minis. I’ve started painting them using a sort of comic book style (a lot of black outlines and some really neat stuff). Some of the minis take to this a little more than others, and I plan to ...

Chibi Kingdom Death: Mountain Man

Jun

24

2021

The Mountain Man is a Kingdom Death character that is still a ways away from hitting our gaming tables. He was part of the Kingdom Death resin range and later added to the KDM 1.5 Kickstarter as the final showdown for the Inverted Mountain campaign.So far, we only know a little bit about him aside ...

Cake Topper on a Castle Cake

Jun

18

2021

Since I mostly make wedding cake toppers for non local couples, I rarely get to see a cake topper in its final context on a cake.Here are some photos that a happy couple sent me of their wedding cake. Yes, their whole wedding had this awesome medieval theme to it, including their outstanding outfits.This fantastic ...

Chibi Gloomhaven Continues with Jaws of the Lion

Jun

9

2021

A while ago I started an absolutely bonkers huge project to create Chibi miniatures for everything in Gloomhaven.It was bafflingly huge and tons of fun to convert the heroes and all of those monsters. After that was finished, creating the monsters and heroes unique to Jaws of the Lion seemed like a simple thing in ...

Video Gamer Wedding Cake Toppers

May

18

2021

I find it kind of awesome how many couples I have met that met one another through online games. That’s not how my wife and I met, but I do know she’s got my back in Borderlands.Here are a few ways that some of my clients have chosen to express this side of them.