Jan van Amstel class Minesweepers

The Jan van Amstel class Minesweepers were a class of 9 ships of the Netherlands Royal Navy. Only Hr.Ms. Abraham Crijnssen escaped the Japanese onslaught in the Dutch East Indies and can still be visited in Den Helder Netherlands as a Museum ship. Other ships of the class had different careers and the class was used in 4 different navies. Dutch, RN, RAN and the Kriegsmarine

• Hr.Ms. Jan van Amstel, Sunk March 1942


• Hr.Ms. Pieter de Bitter, Scuttled March 1942


• Hr.Ms. Abraham Crijnssen, Escaped the Japanese by camouflaged as an island in 1942. Served in the Royal Australian Navy 1942/1943 before returned to the Netherlands Navy in 1943. And became a Museum ship in 1997.


• Hr.Ms. Eland Dubois, Sucttled March 1942


• Hr.Ms. Willem van Ewijck, Sunk Sept 1939


• Hr.Ms. Pieter Florisz, Scuttled May 1940, Kriegsmarine (M551) 1940 ~ 1945, Recommissioned 1946


• Hr.Ms. Jan van Gelder, Royal Navy 1943 ~ 1946 (J60)


• Hr.Ms. Abraham van der Hulst, Scuttled May 1940, Kriegsmarine (M553) 1940 ~ 1944, destroyed Aug 1944


• Hr.Ms. Abraham van der Hulst, captured, Kriegsmarine 1940 ~ 1945, returned 1946

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The models are provided in 1/1000 scale and are Resin print only.

1/1800 – resize to 55,56%

1/1200 – resize to 83,5%

There are named bases provided for the following ships; Jan van Amstel, Abrahan Crijnsen, Eland Dubois, Pieter de Bitter and Willen van Ewijck, one per Minesweepers. 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. Do not forget to also re-scale the bases if you print in 1/1200 or 1/1800 scale.

Included 1/1800 scale pre-supported models 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.