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

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.

Painted Etherfields

May

11

2021

Etherfields has a very interesting and surreal set of miniature in their dreamcrawler game.The game features loads of moody artwork that is often a little indistinct and usually leans heavily on a strong mood. The miniatures set is extremely diverse, but I decided to give them a cohesive mood through using most of the same ...

Fantasy Cosplay Wedding Cake Toppers

Apr

23

2021

I love the varied themes that I get to make into wedding cake toppers. Not all of them are in traditional white wedding dresses and black tuxedos. Here are a couple brides and grooms that wore medieval outfits. The first couple are all set for some dungeon delving. This couple had me create outfits for ...

Chibi Flower Knight

Apr

1

2021

When I first started making Kingdom Death characters in chibi form, one person pointed out to me how much he was looking forward to seeing the Flower Knight.I realized at the same time that the Flower Knight would look brilliant, but was also a very challenging prospect (and the mini is easily among my very ...

Zombie Wedding Cake Toppers

Mar

30

2021

Here is a cake topper that I made for a couple that wanted to have an interesting way to say “together forever.” Yes, they may both be undead walkers at this point, but love endures.This couple had a beach wedding and wanted to have that represented (hence the bare feet and sandy base). I’ve done ...

“Interesting” Colors

Mar

5

2021

At every gaming convention I’ve been to, there have always been a few classes offered on how to deal with certain colors that give people troubles.These classes usually focus on how to paint colors to look yellow, red, white or black without making them look like some other color. Usually the advice is more or ...

Make a Scene with your Wedding Cake Topper

Feb

24

2021

This particular cake topper was made with a battle in mind. They’re both facing the enemy- which I believe will be a dragon made largely of cake and frosting.There are a lot of creative things that people do with their cakes, and those aren’t always completely apparent when I show off the cake toppers by ...

Death High Love

Feb

12

2021

I figure I could post up something sweet for Valentine’s Day weekend, and here is the Death High Intimacy Couple from Kingdom Death.They’ve been releasing these high-school anime versions of the Kingdom Death characters in photoresin (3D prints). While I still prefer their normal hand poured resin, I do think that their prints come out ...