Imperial N-S9 Starpath unit

[senserazer]

Hello RPF!

Fell in love with the N-S9 Starpath unit from Andor.
Anyone know what the main body is? I've found this "Doust found “an old piece of military junk” that had handles, and it looked like something you’d plug into a larger machine." So some kind of military hardware.

Does anyone know of any replicas having been made? Or maybe have some good reference material? I've attached what I have.

 

[senserazer]

I've been able to deduce that its some kind of rack mount electronic.

 

[Dbb4000]

Handles could be 1.5u rack mount pulls.

 

[Dbb4000]

The gold components may be some sort of modified "C" style spring contact.

 

[Dbb4000]

The wires that cross may be USB 3.0 10 pin ribbon cable.

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[Dbb4000]

Square indicator lights may be "(LMP) AB71469".

 

[senserazer]

Great finds! All noted. The C style spring contacts definitely look right, if compressed a bit further, and maybe flipped upside down.
The ribbon cable also looks pretty spot on.
The indicator light might be right as well, but I reckon it could also just be some kind of plastic cut out, same for the blue parts. Difficult to say with the quality of the images.

 

[senserazer]

The tubes running along each side remind me of fuses. But they're quite large, and appear octagonal.

Handles might be something along the lines of this.

 

[Finkazoid]

Did my own model of it

 

[senserazer]

That looks great! Made from screen caps pr how did you go about it? Is the file available anywhere, to use as reference?

 

[Finkazoid]

Yeah used the limited screen caps to model it....I popped the files on CGTrader if anyone wants them.

 

[senserazer]

Awesome. And well done!

 

[Edged]

There’s one on Etsy that I’ve been eyeing. I just don’t think something like this should be an all-inclusive print. Too many components went into the actual prop and while it looks good (much better than I could ever do) it’s just too flat if you know what I mean.

 

[senserazer]

There’s one on Etsy that I’ve been eyeing. I just don’t think something like this should be an all-inclusive print. Too many components went into the actual prop and while it looks good (much better than I could ever do) it’s just too flat if you know what I mean.

Agreed. The front also looks to maybe be shiny black acrylic? Which will probably be disproportionately hard to replicate, compared to just using the right material.

 

[Edged]

If anyones interested in revisiting this, I’d love to attempt a build! I’m almost done with both my projects and looking for something to get into this weekend. ANY help would be great.

I’m about to order a 12x12 black acrylic plate for the front. Trying to figure out that red indicator light, but I’ll keep looking.

 

[PropManNick]

Did my own model of it
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This is really nice! Is this able to be sliced and converted to an STL file so that it could be 3d printed?

 

[gmrhodes13]

If anyones interested in revisiting this, I’d love to attempt a build! I’m almost done with both my projects and looking for something to get into this weekend. ANY help would be great.

I’m about to order a 12x12 black acrylic plate for the front. Trying to figure out that red indicator light, but I’ll keep looking.

I used these files Star Wars Andor Starpath Unit | 3D Print Model

The only thing was the top and bottom are the same in the files, but should be a different bottom, I managed to find a reference

Reference top left, other images my attempt