Also, the Dubai Hobby Center is quite useless for jets modelers. They do have some jets on display but know nothing about them...
There is a little shop in Karama where I go from times to times called Hobby World that stocks a lot of heavy duty JR stuff.
I get 97% of my stuff from Leon/Darryl ( BVM reps ) or Todd @ Dreamworks...

The local modeller who is by far the most knowledgeable in the jet area is Ahmed-Nasser. Extremely nice chap as well and very good friend of mine. People call him "teacher" because he is always ready to help at the field and has a 10 years+ experience in jets building and flying. Another fantastic local guy is Sallah. Always laughing and joking and very fine helicopter/jets pilot ( you should see his monster scale jet powered helicopters )...

Among expatriate guys there are Darryl, Sami, Lee, Reno, Leon, Derek who are all jet flyers and good friends as well.
Darryl is the most experienced of us in Jets/model flying and the cleanest/best builder I've ever seen.

So as you can see the Dubai jet scene is quite busy...