I tinkered with my Nvidia controller and solved the blacked out ships in the museum, but those same ships were still blacked out in the scenario.

. It took a couple of days, but I finally discovered that if you have ships in a scenario that were built AFTER the date of your scenario, they are blacked out because in the files of the game, they don't exist yet. You either have to change the date of creation of the particular ship in the ROSTER files, or date your scenario to a time after the date that ship was built. That's why my DE's in the scenario were blacked out. I accidentally dated the scenario 1942-11-15, instead of 1943-11-15.

If there were such a thing as a Noob Award, I just won a red ribbon! ...but I'm learning.