Hello and Good Morning,
I wrote a few times here about the rare-ness of sets and manufacturers. The last bad news come from BUM and GERMAN from Spain. They stop their long lasting but very rare set production of WSS Spanish sets and other sets.
The seasons were and are that molds still do not last forever. Some work some die. The future to this company will be: older sets printing in 3D.
The other point of this topic is the mass of new sets. You have to mention that Strelets serve - only in my decades of collecting - nine new sets. This makes a 100 Euros only for Strelets. Then comes Franznap with 200-300 Euros for his new sets. Then Eric Bahlouli makes 3D Guard Pioneers as fire fighters of Napoleons palaces. Lange Rede - Kurzer Sinn: I do not have the money to buy all. So the good old times with Airfix and Esci selling large amounts of soldier sets have changed into a wide spread market with all you need for every period of collection.
The dying producers are being substituted by many smaller, more specialized manufacturers in the future.
Have a nice weekend
Patrick