You cant put all the blame on Tamiya.
Tamiya just make the products and sell to distributors worldwide who have to try and sell to the public.
Unfortunately as said its very difficult for the distributors to sell any models and make money, so simply they don't. In the UK Lee Martins country where he has done fantastic for Tamiya it is close to impossible to buy kits and spares in uk, just as no-distributor can do it and make a profit. We have the same problem with Kyosho, but lucky we are a big strong Distributor who can sell the kits for no profit and make small margin on spares etc, we can only do this as we don't fully rely on this race market for our core business.
So again don't blame Tamiya its just fact of the world economics that outside Japan it can not be sold for easily for profit.
If you love the products get them anyway you can. If you don't then try another Japanese Brand with same quality but little easier to get ;-)
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