Some of the descriptions of the following items contain the words , rare, uncommon, reasonably and so on. Rare is a word that is used and abused, along with vintage on e-bay. During this phase of collecting I was spending a good deal of time scouring e-bay and various other online outlets for plastic model kits, and this gave me a fair idea of how to classify an items availability, and to give a reasonable assessment of it's "rareness".