I would say the Avonds F-16 is superior to the AD for a couple of reasons, or has a advantage wich will confirm the right choice as you start to use the model.
First, the Avonds has a mush bigger hatch, allowing you to have a better control of the components inside. Also easier to get all the stuff inside.
It has lower weight, and if buildt according to the manual, this will ensure you to get a light weight fighter, easily airborne from grass, with no flaps.
Flight caracteristics is just about the same for both. App. 50 % of the total lift, comes from the body itself, as the Vortex lift is generated due to the caracteristic shape.( Any F-16)
I would not hesitate to recommend it as the first jet-project at all.
Very few scale projects behave like the Falcon.Very easy to fly, just take spesial care as the nose gets higher at low airspeed.
If not followed up with moore power, it will drop like a brick. Not suddely, but as a result. Quite fun in safe altitude!
To do this model first as a DF, and then convert it to turbine, is just the waste of time.
I have heard the much smaller Yellow F-16 is moore tricky, and if it is, this confirms: The bigger, the better, wich is a thumb-rule to all airplane models.
Just go for it, Jasper!

Regards

Gudmund