I don't know if anyone here picked one up from Yahoo Japan - but there are a couple of them on ebay at the moment. One of them is using a photo of your finished model Joa!
Lol ... kind of inevitable as the only decent build up pics of the kit floating the net are Skink's and mine, though Skink's appeals more to me ... ^^
Flattered or irritated¿ I guess .. both.
I did! Lol. I won the 2nd one. From what you told me, it seems like it's an original, but I won't know until I receive it (or maybe not even then). We'll see!