Zi Mishkal
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Zi Mishkal
@zimishkal.bsky.social
Geologist, cartographer, cartoonist, amateur astronomer. As a hobby, I do education science outreach. Father and husband. He/him until I perfect cloning, then they/them. Avid player of old school rpgs and painter of miniatures.
I haven't picked up a brush in awhile but my players need new #minis so #miniatures #minipainting #reapermini
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Reaper 77990: Thunderfoot Behemoth. Aka - a very big trike. Sat half painted on my shelf for more than a year, reprimed and repainted in three days. #reapermini #miniatures #dinosaur
August 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Just finished the Bones V Dark Depths Sea Dragon for my group. (There's a Sea dragon off the Isle of Dread you know). #reapermini ##miniatures ##becmi
August 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Vantage (by Stonemaier Games) is an incredible co op board / card / RPG mash up that you can also easily play solo. Loving it!! #Vantage #stonemaier store.stonemaiergames.com/products/van...
August 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Spent the evening looking at the stars #astronomy #telescope #darkskies
April 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Thanks to Michaels I have a new way to display human sized painted #miniatures
April 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Finally back to mini painting for next week's game of #Mausritter. Did up one of the mouselings. #minipainting #reapermini #ttrpg
March 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Relative sizes of the grids of different battle maps. #ttrpg #dnd the "5e" one is the heavy cardboard map found in the Campaign Case.
March 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Throwing in a second pic of #jupiter tonight - this one showing three moons. From left to right they are Io, Europa and Ganymede. Taken with my ASI camera and my old Orion 128mm Mak-cas telescope. #astronomy.
March 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
#jupiter tonight taken through the #telescope
March 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Map transfer complete. Definitely easier to work with 17x22 bristol board than a 6 foot roll of graph paper. Now to add more to it and flesh out my homebrew campaign setting some more. I kinda want to do some of this as a blog. That might be fun. #ttrpg #dnd #homebrew
March 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I just remembered that I had 17x22" Bristol board with the same grid on it, so I'm transferring by hand the huge map onto more durable Bristol board. I really wish they still made this board. #maps #ttrpg
March 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Sooo.. my WIP redraft of the top of the Temple in A1 Secret of the Slavers Stockade. #adnd #rpg #ttrpg #dnd #map
March 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
February 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I don't feel I have an intuitive grasp of #SWADE mechanics so made a couple of tables showing the percentages to succeed at a regular check and get a raise #ttrpg #rpg Data from Savage Worlds Success Rate Calculator nicolas-van.github.io/sw_stats/?fb...
February 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
One more for tonight. Really just to be creative without any overarching purpose. Micron pens and some kind of water based brush pen (the blue) by Karin. I do like the idea of a single small cave shared by different monsters. But where does that last passage go? #ttrpg #maps #cartography #dnd
February 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Short exercise with the Frixion pens tonight. "The Disappointing Cave" - because not all caves lead somewhere...
February 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Master map is coming together. Each big square is 25 mi across. Compass rose from #campaigncoins. #dnd #becmi #ttrpg
February 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Taking all the small maps and transferring them onto the big map... the old fashioned way. #ttrpg #rpg #maplaking #cartography
February 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ive updated my #ttrpg homebrew campaign map. Can you find the Isle of Dread? 😅 #dnd #becmi #rpg
February 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Iteration is the key to success? First (left) vs second (right) draft of a map I'm putting together for a campaign setting. #ttrpg #maps #cartography #rpg #dnd
February 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Doodle! #cartoon
February 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Yaay! Minis are finished. Also the painting table is (mostly) cleaned up. Pretty much ready for the next session on Tuesday! #reapermini #miniatures #ttrpg
February 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Some days the world is spiraling downwards into collapse but you find the 1980s FASA Doctor Who metal minis for ten bucks in the discount bin of the local thrift store.

The world is still going to hell but now I can at least paint time lords #doctorwho #minis #ttrpg
February 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
You never really realize how big #dinosaurs are until you start putting them to scale against #dnd minis. #ttrpg #miniatures
January 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM