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Wlindley,

I don't think flags on the stations look right somehow - none of my local stations or bus stops have flags like this.  They look great on headquarters though, so let's just keep them for identifying HQs.  I also think it's fine how you've done them so far with pixel editing - company colours are hard to do in blender.

Some of the bus stations already have company colour bus stop signs, so maybe if you wanted to make the other stations into company colours it would be best to try and make some of the details company coloured rather than adding flags.  So things like the canopy on the over-roof of the railway station, or the colour of the signs, fences, guttering and doors, that sort of thing.

Having said that though, once you start adding company colours, do you then add company colours to vehicles as well?  Pak128.Britain has gone down the "original colours" route rather than player colours, with only a handful of sprites with player colours in very subtle places.  Changing everything would be very hard work (but if you want to do a player colour branch of the pak, be my guest!), and having half-and-half would look a little silly I think.  And I'm certainly not keen for either redrawing the existing vehicles or drawing new vehicles myself in player colours - that would be a chore and would take the fun out of it for me.  So I would strongly recommend keeping any player colour additions to the minimum, and very subtle at that.