Scale
Haha Kevin scratch building is when you open a kit and see all the crappy wood and die crunched parts and you "SCRATCH" your head throw all the wood into your scrap bin and cut your own parts. I say scratch built is anything you build that was not in a comercially produced kit. I consider kit cutter kits as scratch built as they are not what I consider factory set up kit.
Any way back to scale. I am a true scale fanatic and build mine with as much detail as possible, but I feel there are several different levels of scale as mentioned above by Hossfly. I see that most kits are more of a sport scale or stand way off and squint scale.
but as long as we view there is several levels of scale I think the debate will rest.