Boonta Ziringa
"This ship is much too elegant to see its final days in the slimy hands of the Hutts!!" - Varek Marr
Originally commissioned by a Quarren syndicate on Trask, Boonta Ziringa was designed as a salvage vessel, but after a violent power shift in the syndicate, the ship was acquired by the Hutts as compensation for a lost shipment. The Hutts transferred it to Tatooine, where it was used as a transport barge in service of the Hutt kajidic Desilijic during the Jabba rule. In the chaos following Jabba's demise, Boonta Ziringa was bought from the Jawas by a native Tatooine entrepreneur named Varek Marr. When Boba Fett assumed control over Tatooine and ushered in a long-awaited period of stability, Varek offered Boba his services. Boonta Ziringa sailed the Dune Sea for many decades, until it suddenly disappeared from Tatooine planetary records.
When travelling across the planet surface, Boonta Ziringa would use the resource-efficient repulsorlift drives to stay afloat. Its massive sail would catch the hot winds of the Jundland Wastes, propelling the vessel at breakneck speeds with minimal fuel consumption.
The barge could support a small crew for several weeks, and its modular cargo holds were perfectly suited for smuggling goods in the dry Tatooine environment. When stationary, the sails would fold down to make its profile smaller. Boonta Ziringa was capable of interplanetary travel, a the cost of significantly reduced cargo capacity.
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This is my entry for SHIPtember this year. It’s my first-ever digital SHIP, built and rendered with Bricklink Studio. It is (obviously) heavily inspired by this concept art by John Wallin Liberto, made for the movie The Creator. When I saw his drawing, it was love at first sight — I knew I had to build my own version!
I had major issues with the diagonal decals on the sails. I learned that PartDesigner is extremely bad at handling decals on large imported objects, so I had to apply them to small groups and individual elements instead. It was mind-numbingly tedious, but totally worth it! :)
During the build process, my brain usually starts visualizing the final result. I saw this ship swooshing across a desert landscape like the Star Wars planet Tatooine. Once that image took hold, I couldn’t let it go — I had to place this ship into a Star Wars setting.
Name: Boonta Ziringa (Boonta's Shadow)
Length: 138 studs
Number of elements: 3401
Boonta Ziringa
"This ship is much too elegant to see its final days in the slimy hands of the Hutts!!" - Varek Marr
Originally commissioned by a Quarren syndicate on Trask, Boonta Ziringa was designed as a salvage vessel, but after a violent power shift in the syndicate, the ship was acquired by the Hutts as compensation for a lost shipment. The Hutts transferred it to Tatooine, where it was used as a transport barge in service of the Hutt kajidic Desilijic during the Jabba rule. In the chaos following Jabba's demise, Boonta Ziringa was bought from the Jawas by a native Tatooine entrepreneur named Varek Marr. When Boba Fett assumed control over Tatooine and ushered in a long-awaited period of stability, Varek offered Boba his services. Boonta Ziringa sailed the Dune Sea for many decades, until it suddenly disappeared from Tatooine planetary records.
When travelling across the planet surface, Boonta Ziringa would use the resource-efficient repulsorlift drives to stay afloat. Its massive sail would catch the hot winds of the Jundland Wastes, propelling the vessel at breakneck speeds with minimal fuel consumption.
The barge could support a small crew for several weeks, and its modular cargo holds were perfectly suited for smuggling goods in the dry Tatooine environment. When stationary, the sails would fold down to make its profile smaller. Boonta Ziringa was capable of interplanetary travel, a the cost of significantly reduced cargo capacity.
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This is my entry for SHIPtember this year. It’s my first-ever digital SHIP, built and rendered with Bricklink Studio. It is (obviously) heavily inspired by this concept art by John Wallin Liberto, made for the movie The Creator. When I saw his drawing, it was love at first sight — I knew I had to build my own version!
I had major issues with the diagonal decals on the sails. I learned that PartDesigner is extremely bad at handling decals on large imported objects, so I had to apply them to small groups and individual elements instead. It was mind-numbingly tedious, but totally worth it! :)
During the build process, my brain usually starts visualizing the final result. I saw this ship swooshing across a desert landscape like the Star Wars planet Tatooine. Once that image took hold, I couldn’t let it go — I had to place this ship into a Star Wars setting.
Name: Boonta Ziringa (Boonta's Shadow)
Length: 138 studs
Number of elements: 3401