HMS Legion 1/700 FlyHawk: Deluxe Version Assembly, Painting 

My dad served on the Legion from the time it entered service until it was lost at Malta. He was a stoker and is one of the crew on the ship’s bow in photos while alongside HMS Ark Royal after she was torpedoed.

Great build ! Wish Flyhawk would make an HMS Cossack with their attention to detail it would blow the Airfix rendition out of the water!

Great video, glad you enjoyed the Flyhawk kit. I'm a huge fan of their models, as you say a lot of the detail is so good that you don't have to use the photo-etch replacement parts if you don't want to. If you just do railings, ladders, cranes and radars in PE and stick with plastic for the rest you'll still get great results. Anyway, you've done a good job on HMS Legion. As to the paint scheme, well I think the captain would be ordering his crew to scrub all the grime off the superstructure and deck fittings, but whether or not it's strictly historically accurate, it's got character and definitely doesn't look toy like.

I have just completed the HMS Lance. I built it very much like yourself, except I painted as I went - in modules. I would advise this. It turned out stunning and apart from rusting the chain, a pin wash and matt overcoat, I didn't weather it. It's my best build. I agree that leaving out some PE parts is sensible. I also agree about the instructions - they need studying through well in advance. I too put the depth charge racks on before realising there were PE racks. I changed them after. Wish I'd stuck with plastic davits. FLYHAWK are the dog's watsits. Wish I could send you pics.

It looks great, so much fun.

Just joined your channel as I make ships and love to see other modellers way of making things. I have this kit and it is a beauty, as well as the other 8 Flyhawk kits that I have. I like the way that you did this, not my choice of doing it, but each to their own and yours turned out just fine. The paint job looks great, as it is hard to get the right "feel" in such a small naval subject. Maybe a little overdone on the weathering of the superstructure but you know that. Glad that you shared it anyway and if we each made everything perfect first time then we would never learn and grow. Great job.

I really enjoyed the build and take my hat off to you given the scale and the many miniscule parts (both plastic and PE) which you deftly managed, even with a not-so-good pair of tweezers. Not sure about the paint job.......unless you are representing a ship that's been through many battles without rest or repair. Many a weary sailor on that ship! Will look forward to seeing that notification and what next you have in store for us.

Best kits on the market, imho! I’ve got Kelly on the blocks and given the smallness of it, it’s difficult to know how and where to start the paint job 😂😂😂 Given the way that you cracked on with it, I think that you didn’t do too badly....lessons learned for the next time and do do another, coz this one wasn’t a total disaster, was it? 👏🏼👏🏼

hi just found your channel and subbed really great content stay safe my friend

Yet another fantastic build, it's always a pleasure watching your videos, so much so that i've bought the Bismark, with all the gubbins, and we'll see how i get on with it, though i doubt i have as steady a hand or the patience.

OMG! The patience & steadiness of hand. Do you do commission work I wonder?

Good looking model, I think I'm throwing everything i have in the trash. Do you ever knock off your p e parts during a build im kinda like a bull in a China shop. You kinda need to do a blooper segment

Very dirty & not looking really job. Sorry