(SIG ARF)
ORIGINAL: JohnBuckner
The wood has notibly changed for the worse.
Now this stuff is flooding the market and what do we do tell the newbie to move down the road or look for ways to help him. I have no answer.
John
A lot of "kits" today are "pig wood" from China and they are horrible kits as well as ARFs, but SIG kits (not their ARFs from China) are still to my knowledge, good old balsa they always were. I just picked up a Astro Hog and Kavaliar for winter building, and the contents were not disappointing at all. (see gravesrc.com) I just missed a SIG Kommander they had let go for $159. They also have the Smoothie, but just to be sure, I found the original version cheaper here in the marketplace for under $80.
I don't think I'd touch Tower's renditions of Top Flite and Goldberg for example. Anyone have first hand experience as to the wood quality in these rebadged kits?