Imperial N-S9 Starpath Unit

IMPERIAL N-S9 STARPATH UNIT

This is my recreation of the infamous N-S9 Imperial Starpath Unit stolen by Cassian Andor in Andor Season 1. 

I tried to make it as “realistic” as possible from what I could interpret from its brief appearances on-screen in the show, its wookiepedia entry, and also took some inspiration from other makers efforts at recreations on the RPF (Thank you!). There is of course some creative license taken in places where there is little or no reference imagery and also to make it as easy to print as possible. 

The whole thing prints in parts with only a few requiring a few simple, easy to remove supports. It is held together primarily with printed pegs with only the front panel requiring to be glued on. All the greebles are embedded within the model parts and painted in the 3MF file, the only exception being the front handles which print separately to preserve their print quality and allow for easy support removal that wont leave scars. There is also a neat little stand included to display it.

The file is painted for the filaments I used, which includes a few different shades of dark greys/silvers which I felt gave it more dimension. You could probably experiment and narrow the amount of filaments down a bit and still get good results if you only have one AMS. The profile also uses Support for PLA to give nice clean, smooth full contact supports on the sides and handles, if you don't have support filament, you could keep these settings and use PETG as the interface instead. 

I have uploaded the individual STL files if you want to print single colour and paint it, that would look really cool if you have the skills… which i definitely do not! 

Filaments I used:

• Elegoo Black PLA
• Bambu PLA Metal Indium Gold - Gold Greebles on top
• Polymaker  Polyterra PLA  Lava Red - Red Buttons on front
• Ziro Silk PLA Silver Black- ‘Metal’ Side Frame Pieces
• Ziro PLA-CF Black - Detailing on Top and Bottom Pieces (Bambu PLA-CF Lava Grey would also work)
• Bambu PLA Basic Silver- Metal detailing on top/bottom, rods on side, front/back panels
• Overture Matte White PLA- Front greebles
• Bambu PLA Matte Marine Blue- Front greebles
• Ziro Transluscent PLA Red- Front ‘displays’ (speed is reduced on these parts to create translucent effect of an old LED display)
• Bambu Support for PLA- supports all set for full contact, easy removal and smooth clean undersides (can also use PETG)

I know alot of folks like using Bambu filaments so ill add the Bambu alternatives to the Non-Bambu filaments I would recommend using to the BOM below :)