I just recently started my 1/48 collection. Once I have them all, they'll be strictly for display. I'll get the 1/60 models to play with. They all seem to be going for $100 regardless of which one you get. Sure the limited edition model doesn't have the best color scheme, but I got it dammit. I'm just sorry that I'm just now getting into collecting them. I've always been a fan of the macross series but I never got around to doing research on buying the actual toys. A few years back, a friend of mine went out and got all of the masterpiece collection valks. I almost followed suite but it slipped my mind. Then another friend of mine came over to my house one day and saw Jetfire sitting on the mantle all alone, armored up and ready for action. This sparked our conversation about valks and trying to see if anything was out there.
The rest is history. Since July, I have managed to get super Max, Miria and Hikaru, VF1-A woodland, angel bird, stealth, mass production, GBP armor, Urban armor, clear fast pack covers, 25 anny valk, Hayao DYRL, limited edition low vis (in the mail) and a VF-OS with ghost. So far, this has all cost me $1721.80. I don't think I'm doing to bad. All I need to get now is a 25th anny VF-19, Roy DYRL, a set of super and strike parts and some woodland armor. Save is being nice enough to help me out with those. I know this isn't the definitive complete collection by far, but those are the particular models that I'm after. I chose the DYRL versions for Roy and Hayao because I like the color as opposed to the TV versions. Maybe if I had started collecting these back in 07' when they were first released, they wouldn't have cost me so much. Oh well.
As for those of you that were able to get the low vis limited for less than $250, I tip my hats off to you. I wish I could have been that lucky, but I just didn't see it happening so I had to go for this one. I'm sure one of you wouldn't have been willing to part with yours for less than $250 now would you?