Which is better overall the Hobby Boss or Eduard kit?

I don't know about the HB offering, but I have the Profipack IIIC. It includes metal weight for the nose, express mask, prepainted PE for the cockpit and several decals and color scheme. Here in my country, the HB kit costs around 1300 Pesos (about 23 USD) IIRC and the Eduard kit is 1700 Pesos (about 27 USD). Your call, but I would recommend the Eduard kit for the goodies.

From what I hear, it's pretty much a tossup between the two. I don't know for sure as I haven't seen the HB kit, but from what I understand reading on some other forums, the HB kit appears to be based on the Eduard kit.

You have to figure that most Hobby Boss kits are copy's of other manufactures products, so it's not going to be as good as the original.
Curt

Actually i don't think the Hobby Boss kit is really an Eduard copy in any way other than they looked at the Eduard kit and used a similar parts breakdown. But how many truly different ways are there to do a delta wing aircraft parts breakdown?

The surface detailing on the 2 kits is different, the Hobby Boss kit is done the Trumpeter way (a bit overstated in my opinion) whilst the Eduard kit is done their way- finer panel lines/rivets. The Eduard kit decals are better. The Hobby Boss kit is cheaper. Those are the key differences from my observations.

As for other Hobby Boss "copies", well i only have 2 other kits of theirs to compare, both subjects done by Tamiya. Their 1/48 KV1 which is better detailed than the Tamiya version. And the Hobby Boss 1/48 T-34 which convincingly wipes the Tamiya kit from the face of the planet, it is so much superior. Though the HB kit is a copy for sure- it's a 1/48 scale downsize of the Trumpeter 1/16 kit...