Wardog wrote:No,if you bought a model from a retailer in a box,or down load from a pc to your printer its the same.
If you down load certain parts for a build maybe.
From drawing to measure to card to plastic,metal to glue etc.thats scratch build the old way.
I'm guessing your thinking is along the lines that having blue prints and a 35th scale model to help copy and make your own parts out of bits of material is scratch building, and it is. No matter what manufacturing machines you may have available to help make your life easier and produce the item.
But, when Wayne printed the bombs for me, he didn't just click print. He had to modify the files, re scale the item, change its printing process to cater for the bigger size, basically, re writing the program to suit the requirements. And used a machine he had available to produce the item.
That is something most people don't take into consideration with people printing parts, there is more involved than just pressing print.