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

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.

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 ...