Jan Peters
Cool subject for a comparison build, will follow this 👀
I have the Tamiya kit in my stash, to build a Dutch version of course.
I had the Heller kit too, but felt it was too much work to bring it up to modern standards.
Looking forward to your progress Erik 👍🏻

Maciej Bellos
Watching!

Dave Flitton
Watching

Bernd Grün
Following!

Łukasz Gliński
Joining y'all here.
Erik, I think the Inplast/MrCrap is reverse-engineered copy actually. It appeared in the times when buying molds or production batches was too expensive for us down here. So they reverse-designed the new molds and use them since then (e g.my SR-53 and vacu Airacobra share identical origin)

Erik De Smet
Lukasz, The Heller kit is the original, with raised panel lines showing its age. Inplast made a "Polish" copy based on it with the same parts lay-out , but probably for a smaller injection machines. The recessed panel lines on the fuselage are good, all other parts are less than the original. I just bought one kit for a bargain price as I lost the canopy of my Heller kit. All other Polish and Czech versions of this kit appear to come from the same moulds with other decals .

Andy Ball
Ambitious and informative- like it!

Erik De Smet
I had two older moldels (Heller and Hobbyboss) in my collection , and I stripped the decals and paint with AK paint stripper. I am quite impressed by the quality of this product : easy to apply with a brush, paint and decals get loose within minutes and can be wiped of with a paper towel and no agression of the plastic, even on the canopy.

Jan Peters
This is becoming quite a collection of thunderjets Erik 👍🏻

Carlo
Excellent work on presenting the variability of kits, well done. You have convinced me to do my Thunder Streak/Jet/Flash kits(Testors/HobbyBoss/Sword) all at the same time when it's their turn.

Erik De Smet
My decal design shows some errors, mainly on the serial numbers and the KB tail colors, so I can only finish this with a reprint of the decals.

Curatorm
Thanks for this comparaison work 🙂 Well done!

Guy Rump
Great collection. 👍