Mine started at about that point, and i think is was a great Fett. I painted everything myself but the helmet(was scared to death to do it back then! ). I paid about $700 for the helmet alone at the time, so if you can swing painting the helmet, that will save you a little more and you can put that towards something else. If you cant/dont want to paint anything yourself, you may need to budget a little higher. Doing the building/painting yourself can literally save you $1,000 or more.
Mine is now around the 5k mark, but alot of that is found parts, and add on aluminum bits to replace the resin ones, like knee darts, gauntlet rocket etc...which you dont NEED.