[Geek44]

There are all kinds of weird and obscure stuff available out there. My local hobby shop keeps dozens of catalogues for many manufacturers on the counter and customers are free to peruse them. If they find something they want, they can order it in with a small deposit...usually around 10% of the retail. The down side of this is that the last time I ordered stuff (from Verlinden...not very obscure) it took nine months to arrive.