10 More Star Wars Scenes You Didn't Realise Were Tricking You

As already noted, miniatures have brilliantly been used to add impressive detail to this galaxy far, far away for decades, with everything from Mustafar to Tatooine being partly created through smaller practical sets over the years.

And these sort of awesome miniatures were still going strong as recently as during the shooting of the final Skywalker Saga flick, with the fantastic Production Designer Kevin Jenkins using a classic forced perspective trick when it came time to throw another sandcrawler into the galaxy far, far away.

For that moment which pops up during Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker's final scene, Jenkins and his team made a 5ft sandcrawler before travelling across the Jordan desert to find the right location to film the gorgeous creation.

The smallest set I made for #StarWars #TheRiseOfSkywalker . Built and painted by the UK Art Department over 8 weeks by just two of my team. I then drove all over the Jordan desert with Art Director Claire Flemming looking for places to film it. Love Miniatures :) pic.twitter.com/AJyJdMZFbl

— kevin jenkins (@kev_jenkins) January 25, 2020

The extras playing Jawas were then shot from a precisely calculated distance further back from the small Tatooine vehicle, with the crawler also being placed on a dressed table at height for the shot.

So, while it may look like the team had either digitally created or built a gigantic, familiar sandcrawler for this sequel scene, it was actually a brilliant old-school trick that brought this machine to the screen.