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

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.

Noooooooooo

Oct

5

2022

Reapercon has some really stellar trophies that they give out, and my very favorite is the mousling trophies awarded to the top three entries with mouslings in them. The trophy is a cute mousling dressed as Napoleon Bonapart on a chibi horse. It is nice enough to paint (and let it be known that a ...

Kingdom Death Chibi Gold Smoke Knight

Sep

15

2022

This is a miniature that I created sometime before our chibi survivors had their big showdown with the final boss fight of Kingdom Death Monster. Everything you see except the weapon is my sculpting work here.I entered him in the open competition at Reapercon and he received a gold medal. The faces are always central ...

Wedding Bows- the Kind for Archery

Aug

17

2022

Weddings often come with lots of bows- and it really just makes sense to be prepared for an incursion of draconic or undead monsters. Best be prepared.Here are a few cake toppers I’ve made for various archers. Arrows may seem like little use against a dragon, but Bard the Bowman taught us that it is ...

Chibi Warhammer Quest

Jul

29

2022

After creating a completely Chibi set of Kingdom Death Monster and all of its various encounters recreated in cute glory, I thought I’d try out some other directions for Chibis.So I have created some of the denizens of the Silver Tower in glorious chibi. Here are some of Tzeentch’s most deadly servants.It was very odd ...

Mixed Fandoms Wedding Cake Toppers

Jul

1

2022

Sometimes the cake toppers I get to make follow a very specific theme. Like a couple that wants to be fighting zombies or in Halo armor or matching their MMO characters.But other times I get to mix different themes and fandoms together.