Traffic Lights

 

For the Bag the Hun game the other day I had to come up with a way to help keep track of which aircraft were which in the formations, which I normally do by identifying insignia or specific markings on the models. However, as I was running the game for other players, this seemed a little ad hoc and I needed to make it work in a more coherent way. Instead, I improvised a traffic light system using some cheap coloured sticky labels from WH Smiths, with red for the shotai or zveno leader, yellow for the number two pilot and green for the number three. This worked really well and made it a lot easier to keep tabs on the specific aircraft and pilots, especially once the formations broke up and the bullets started flying. It was also very inexpensive, which is in keeping with my DIY flight stand philosophy!