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Old 02-12-2007 | 01:54 AM
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tessmar
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Default RE: First Kit Build Question

Sig doesn't make their instructions available online, but Goldberg does. You might take a look at the Tiger 2 or Tiger 60. Download the instructions and see if this is more than you want to deal with. I am relatively new in the hobby myself, and although I got off the buddy box in December I still have a way to go with my Eagle 2 before taking the next step. But like you I wanted to build a kit as a winter project, figuring that by the time I got it together I might be ready to fly it. It came down to the Tiger or the Sig 4 Star. Then a friend who no longer flies gave me a partly completed Sig Hog Biplane (I love bipes). I did go and look at the Tiger 60 at the LHS, and then decided I didn't need two projects so got the 4 Star 40 ARF as my next trainer (low wing) and am building the Bipe as my project. I think Goldberg's instructions for the Tiger are better than the Sig ones for the Hog. so I'm guessing that the 4 Star's are also a bit weak. While both require some "looking ahead" to find missing steps or photos the Goldberg includes drawings of processes and steps, more photos, and are more detailed. At some point the Sig ones look like the guy writing them got bored and it just sort of wanders off into "and then you put the whole thing together." The Tiger 60 is a bit more versatile kit than the 4 Star as according to Goldberg it will fly with a 40 (The Sig 4 Star 60 requires a 60 as the minimum) and can be built with tricycle gear or as a taildragger...but though the picture on the box shows the latter they don't tell you how.