One of model coordinator Dennis Nicholson's crew members is working on a miniature of a Sydney skyscraper in this production still.

Dust and sand are fanned across the miniature set of a ruined Sydney while a camera does a fly-through to film the closing sequences for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

One very common usage of miniature sets is to take a real-world location and – devastate it!

This production still shows the cast and crew on the set of a crashed aeroplane for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Perhaps emboldened by the success of the previous two Mad Max films, the Kennedy Miller production team had no qualms about creating an obvious Australian location for Mad Max

This home movie by Peter Kamen gives us a fascinating glimpse of life on set during the shooting of Mad Max 2 on location in June 1981.