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

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 ...

Fantasy Wedding Cake Toppers with Dragons

Feb

5

2021

Dragons are great. We all know it. Whether we’d prefer to slay them, ride them or communicate telepathically with them, dragons are just great.I’m always happy when I get to include a dragon on one of the wedding cake toppers that I make. Here is one couple with their rather large dragon ally.This dragon is ...

Nukacola Classic

Jan

28

2021

Here are a couple great characters for Modiphius’ Fallout miniatures game that I got to paint up.The first one is the Nukacola girl- sort of a pinup girl used in advertising for the brand, so she’s wearing more makeup than most Fallout characters.The second is the alien. If you don’t recognize him from the game, ...

Green Firey Alpha Legion

Jan

20

2021

The Alpha Legion has always been an interesting group to paint, with the official colors already hard to pin down since they’re meant to be blue highlighted with green.For this relatively simple Alpha Legion group, I got to bring out some of their character by making the fires bright green.Since the placement of the fires ...

Tzolk’in Aztec Calandar

Jan

12

2021

This project was very different from most. This is the large center gear from Tzolk’in: The Aztec Calandar that I painted.While it is more of a relief sculpture than a traditional minaiture, it offered some interesting challenges.The center area is all freehand (due to the way that the gears fit on the board, that part ...

For Starcadia!

Dec

23

2020

I’ve continued on with Starcadia Quest miniatures, still using a sort of comic lineart style-bright colors with black outlining. I’ve especially loved the way that some of these remind me to create some Borderlands fanart in chibi.The style is loads of fun, and I really love how metabreaking it is when compared against some of ...