In any market conditions, the patient buyer will usually find the better deals.
I personally believe that the floor hasn't been fully reached yet for some brands. As more people dealing with financial pressures choose to unload their toys, we should see further deterioration in overall valuations. But each brand has a floor (read up on
price elasticity of demand and you'll understand why). In other words, at a certain value buyers would enter the marketplace for an item even if they were not willing shoppers prior.
And money always gravitates toward
quality. So the nice cars will tend to have more price stability (or a lesser drop) than most. I would place the CSX (continuation) cars and Kirkhams in that camp. Some of the super high end ERA/SPF builds (regulars here know which cars I'm talking about) might also qualify, but they are more the exception than the rule. I would expect to see the most price erosion in pure completed kits, i.e. FFR (to name just one of many), and mostly because the build quality can vary quite substantially.
If I was an active buyer, I'd be patient. All of this just my $0.02 and usually worth half that on a good day.
-Dean