Hi rsfoto,
I have to say Kicad 4.0 is pretty awesome. I have achieved more in the latest version of Kicad then I have in previous versions of EagleCAD and I'm not limited to board size or layers.
For projects that I'm doing I use PTH (Plated Through Hole) I'm not going to use SMD for bench and tutorial pcb's. So my projects exceed EadleCAD's size constraint.
Check out Walter Kicad Library at
http://smisioto.no-ip.org/elettronica/kicad/kicad-en.htm Walter libraries are better than Kicad original in my opinion
You will find a pre-made vertical resistor footprint in mod_pth_resistors.zip and a 3D render in 3d_pth_resistors.zip
If you need to tweak them you can. Best to save the tweaked version in your own library.
Regards,
Inq