Hr.Ms.Z3

Hr.Ms. Z3 was a Royal Netherlands Navy Z1-class Torpedo boat and the only ship of he class still in service during the German attack on The Netherlands 10th May. Armed with  two 75mm Guns and one twin 12.7 mm Machine gun. Part of the IJsselmeer squadron she was tasked to patrol to IJsselmeer to prevent landing attempts in Noord-Holland.




14th May the ship was grounded on the causeway of Krabbersgat and set on fire to prevent capture by the Germans.


The model is based on the 1940 layout, no torpedo-tubes and thus a pure patrol-gun-boat.


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The model is provided in 1/1000 scale and is Resin print only.

1/1800 – resize to 55,56%

1/1200 – resize to 83,5%

There are a few different bases provided. And each base comes in 2 versions. Text recessed and the raised. I used the recessed version for FDM printed bases. Finally a base without text is also included. Do not forget to also re-scale the bases if you print in 1/1200 or 1/1800 scale.

Also included a 1/1800 scale pre-supported model which I used for the test-prints on my Anycubic Mono SE (0.05mm layer) using standard resin. Use at your own risk, might be best you create your own supported files, which prints best on you own printer. Some parts are rather delicate, mainly the gun barrels, and you will need to remove support carefully.

The base was printed on an Ender 5 pro (0.16 mm layer) standard PLA, but feel free to print the Base with a Resin-print, that will give much better text quality.