I use this method.
Cue Stack with one color per cue.
Then i muck around with Trig Time and Fade Time.

What I like about this is you can "simulate" wings by adding "Deley Times" to each cue.

Eg:
Cue 1 is Red with a Delay Time of 0 thru 1 (left to right)
Cue 2 is Yellow with a Delay Time of 1 thru 0 (right to left)
Cue 3 is Blue with a Delay Time of 0 thru 1 thru 0 (outer to centre)

I keep this in a familiar place and out of the way (exec 100.1) and simply tell my main Sequence to "go exec 100.1" as a CMD when the cue in that sequence wants that effect and then to "off exec 100.1" when im finished with it.

the possibilities are endless.
Hope this helps

any other ways of doing this welcomed by the way...