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

Wedding in fun colors

Jan

27

2023

A lot of the couples I make cake toppers for wear traditional wedding colors (mostly black and white- often with a little color splash for the groom’s tie or vest). There’s nothing wrong with that, but it is definitely not the only way things are done.Here is a couple that wore bright colors for their ...

Chibi Jean Grey

Jan

11

2023

I realized today that I hadn’t posted up the Jean Grey that I painted for Marvel United.Like the rest of my Marvel United set, I wanted to try and capture a “comic book” look to her. This means using bright and light colors and using a lot of black lining to make the lining pop ...

You’re a Mean One Mr. Lich

Dec

20

2022

There are some people who say that the original Nagash miniature was the worst miniature of all time.There are others who say that it is only terrible because Games Workshop rejected a decent head and decided to go with the clown skeleton face for their supreme lich demi-god of the undead.But I think that there’s ...

Orc and Human Cake Topper

Dec

16

2022

It is always interesting making cake toppers of the characters that my clients play in games. In this case, I got to make an orc character that the bride plays. And although the groom looks like a strong type as well in that armor, she’s clearly maxed out her strength stat.It was a lot of ...

Greater Demons of Chaos

Dec

8

2022

Some of the best centerpieces for chaos armies have always been the Greater Demons. They’ve always been big and impressive when compared to the rest of the forces. And when other minis in the force got bigger and more impressive, we got some of the most blatant scale creep Games Workshop has ever put out. ...

Cake Toppers with Colorful Wedding Dresses

Nov

22

2022

When Janci and I were engaged, she told me that she really wanted to sew her own wedding dress. She had the pattern, but had me go pick out some fabric with her.At first I kind of figured I wouldn’t have a lot to contribute, since I won’t work with fabric, but we soon both ...

Death High

Nov

18

2022

Among the strangest lines of miniatures ever to be released (so far) is the Death High line from Kingdom Death.This line takes Kingdom Death characters and moves them into a high school setting. Does this make any sense? Well, it does fit in a bit with the anime influences that Kingdom Death line always has. ...

Wedding Cake Topper with Class. Character Class

Nov

11

2022

I met my wife playing Dungeons and Dragons at the local game store. We were both invited to the same game, eventually I ended up running that game and a short time after I killed her character, we were wed.I really love some of the cake toppers I get inspired by various RPG characters- whether ...

Halloween Blood Bowl

Nov

2

2022

Since I played Blood Bowl throughout the “dark times” in which the game was not really supported by Games Workshop. Because of that era, there are a lot of fun Blood Bowl teams made out of other miniatures.This is a Tomb Kings team that I made from Reaper Miniatures. Most of them are made from ...

Vault Dweller Cake Toppers

Oct

14

2022

Here is a couple that survived the apocalypse together. I just hope they don’t nuke the first town they come across.