Just found the box mine came in and it has a price of 3,800 yen I think at the time it was about 15GBP and postag3e was 2,400 yen but that was to Europe I belive addresses in the US are cheaper.
I had no problem with HobbyLink payment was made through paypal and I was kept informed of the progress of my order. It did say deleivery could take up to 28 days but I think I got it after 7.
Sneaker
build time for me was slow, I took about six weeks to make it but that was leaving it alone for days at a time. The body in particular is very repetitive. There are 47 body segments from tail to head and about sixty formers that go inside the body. The legs are quite repetitive and are a bit more fiddly than the body but no more difficult.
I must point out that my model is from scans from the book and so does not have printing on the reverse as the book does, nor does it have the same shine as the book.