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2.- I am getting close to do the sails, the ones that came with the ship looks nice, beside the Admiral likes them, but, can I get some suggestions as to what color would be appropriated for the sails?
Straight out of the bottle, it's hard to argue against Clear Doped Linen.
MMost of out evidence for sail appearnce in that era is from apintings and the like. And those tend to a tineted (white-added) yellow ocher sort of hue. How much of that is from the lighting and how much from artistic license is subject to great debate.
Cotton was a slightly exotic material in the era, linen, mmade from flas fibers, was far more common. Linen tends to a beiges/ecru soer of tone except when chemically bleached. So a yellow-ish color is probably appropriate.
The bolts of cloth were 24 to 26 inches (60 to 66cm) wide, and overlapped about 2 inches (±5 cm). There's scholarly debate on whether the overlaps--in the era--were consistent (inbord over outboard or vice versa) or alternating (one up, one down). Even more debate over the weight of the cloth used. (Contemporary records tell of both "heavy" and "light" sail.) Reefing and reinforcing bands lay over all that.
Sailmakers were common among crews, and so, sails could be patched and repaired. Which would itroduce other colors into the sails.
Reef points would be in the natural fibre color of the cordage used. Probablybleached by the sun.
There's a "tradition" of sorts that warships are not modeled with sails, and merchant vessels with sails--but this is not a uniform of enforced sort of thing.
As a practical matter of modeling, it's far easier to model the sail before the yards are installed on the masts. This era was when we see a change in sails being hung below a yard, to up on the forward side of the yard.
At this scale, unless you have access to super-fine fly-tying line, or silk sutures, your best bet may be fine copper wire strands. You generally want one ribband (the sail tie) per seam in the sail, or around 1.5x the spar diameter apart--whichever you have the patiene to model.
An option you might examine would be to get some 100% linene rag "resume" paper and use the vacuform sails as a model to cut replacement sails. Thse will be lighter, will not have contrary bends in them, and will not be hollow in the back. If you get ecru-hues paper, you are startign from the right sort of color to start. You an mark in seams using a tan, khaki, or brown prismacolor pencil.