AN 'EMPIRE' AT 40: ILM's ROGUES TAKE FLIGHT AND FIGHT!

The Snowspeeders are on their way to fight the advancing Walkers. Here's a selection of images of the models and their filming at ILM.

Steve Gawley (centre) and model team with the components to a model Snowspeeder.

Rear shot showing one of the manoeuvring flaps operating on the Snowspeeder model.

Ken Ralston prepares a model for filming.

Filming the destruction of Rogue Two at ILM. 

Explosive detonations from pyrotechnic wizard Joe Viskocil, co-ordinated and filmed by Richard Edlund.