Just take a look at [this picture](https://www.looksmartmodels.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/lamborghini-huracan-performante-spyder_03.jpg), you can tell immediately that its a model car even though there is nothing in the picture to compare its size to. My guess is that the paint isn’t authentic to our eyes, but are there other reasons as well?
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Level of detail also plays a major part in selling scale. People who build miniatures for films are experts in using detail to give the impression of scale. Sometimes the level of detail required means that miniatures end up not being that miniature at all. On the Lord of the Rings trilogy they ended up calling them bigatures because of the scale needed to make the models detailed enough. Of course models for film are also shot in such a way that they avoid the depth of field issues mentioned by others.
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