Hi Bill, It is hard to believe, but I put 3 or 4 coats of paint on the sails & they are pretty dark but look whit on the pictures. I used more of a brown tint, but from now on I will trend toward a Desert Yellow. I always paint my sails & usually spray a raw umber wash on them at the end, but with the decals I didn't want to do that.
Mark those are the Imai/Ertl decals that came with the kit. I brush Microscale Decal Film on old decals so they don't come apart. Your Revell galleon is a lot bigger than my Imai. It is supposed to be 1/100.
Crackers, I would like to see that. I did a lot of water scenes on my HO layouts. This was a small but real cute one on a bigger layout. I had HO,HOn3 & HO n30 all on this big layout.