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Happy to have found various ATATin the HotWheels range which are about 70mm tall. The ATAT is listed in a wiki as 72 feet tall, so that's close enough for me.
Had one surplus to Empire Requirements, so decided to do something different with them. Made some decals for it, now these are a pain in the arse at any scale
but even more so at 6mm, so they're not as tidy as they could be but there's comes a point you've got to stop faffing around so I'm calling it quits on those after
an evening of madness. Might add some speakers, any other suggestions for additions?

Fun idea and nicely done

Thanks.

Looks like it was hard work! Kudos!

Out of interest though, what system are you using it for?

Thanks. It was pretty easy bar the DIY decals, they're a pain at 28mm anyway, and even more so at 6mm.

I'm most likely to use FUBAR as I'm doing a mix of all my Sci-Fi faves (mainly Aliens, Starship Troopers and Star Wars) and FUBAR has versions for all of those, plus they're so simple I can rope non-gamers into a game. Always found large rule sets put a lot of folk off... me included tbh.

https://fubarwargames.wordpress.com/downloads/

Making a bridge, and starting with what I think is the hardest part, the arch. Found some plumbing pipe which is the perfect diameter, but then sussed what a pain it was to cut it with any real accuracy, so cut some 1mm styrene instead and used the pipe as a former and solidified it by adding milliput. Modelling it to be suitable for both fantasy and dark ages, middle ages.



Got myself a chunk of 3mm foamed pvc and marked out the shape of the bridge, and guidelines for the stonework on both sides...




Basically textured it, I'll add more as I go.


Scribed the stonework


It's based on what is now quite a rare style of stone bridge. The ones which survive are typically foot bridges and it's because of their light traffic and remoteness that some have survived, thankfully. My is chunkier so it won't just snap in use.




The most famous one is probably the Mostar bridge, which you might recall suffered heavy damage during the Yugoslav wars, although it doesn't have as sharp a peak.



Scribed the other side but only down to where the road bed is... and took a blurry photo of it.


Fun with a protractor for the arch stones...


Rough cut...


Et voila!


Textured, scribed and attached the capping stones...


Also filled underneath those to make for easy casting, I'll cast this for the other half, tried to do it so it sits in the shadow and isn't immediately obvious...


One thing which bugs me about a lot of bridges in 6mil is how they're often too narrow to put a base of troops on, I'm aiming at fitting a 40mil base. Hence the length of the span. A short and wide bridge wouldn't look quite right, this will have correct proportions so be acceptable to the eye, well mine at least.

Gave up looking for 6mil graffitti decals so detailed up by hand...