You guys want to try to get hold of kits here in Australia. We had a few homegrown manufacturers, I think they're all gone now. Most hobby shops you go into over here think when you ask for a kit, an (b)arf is what you want. Of course, there are a few true hobby shops around too , who do stock for builders as well .
 My main train of thought was simply that if the asian arf manufacturers have to make a kit to put together as an arf, why not cater for more of the hobby and make some of them kits. At least then we could right some of the wrongs they do when they make them (hot melt glue, no glue, ect)