What PDFs can FFG not release?

RPG books. They count as digital games, which is a license Electronic Arts holds.

What PDFs can FFG not release?

Also, I fail to see what the advantage is for FFG to give up some control of their game and license to amateurs.

The amateurs is kind of silly in this context as we are talking about professionals with more experience in 3D on demand printing than FFG has, especially if you consider how those tournament kits turn out that FFG is doing in house by, well apparently amateurs and without QA. FFG is a board game and now miniatures publisher and developer, they have little experience at all with on demand (3d) printing. FFG is not a copy-shop. Now their missing copyediting and QA suggest that they are not really publisher either, but just a developer who sub-contracts production some Chinese, but that is just my cynical self mocking them. I still love their game designers. ;-)

Anyway some contracted professional one-demand print service might be a good idea for FFG as well, those Nebulons are really expensive, people will print them anyway, it would be a shame not to take the money from a few space whales, while those models for sure do not make any sense for mass production.

If they were really professionals, then they should've been creating their own molds for the debris, rather than stealing FFG's own work.

You are asking for FFG to essentially allow parts of their game to be designed and built by someone else. I fail to see any business value in that. I also don't think you want these fan works to be put under LFL supervision. Because, like a good licensor, they want control of the brand.

The only sensible reason for doing it is if you dont have the means to do it yourself.

Like in the 90s, pre 'forgeworld' GW licensed 'armorcast' to make 'super heavy' 40k vehicles, titans and tyranid bio monsters in resin because maing plastic kits of them was prohibitively expensive for item that wouldnt sell a *lot* then (i think the original presses/molds for the leman russ in the 90s were about UK GBP £250,000) and GW at the time didnt have a resin manufacturing process set up.

But in the end they were not overly impressed with the quality and detail of armorcast, stopped the licence and set up FW

It seems to me that all FFGs models are injection moulded plastic that is then either mask or handpainted en masse, while i'm sure they have a 3d printer they clearly are not set up to commercially use that process or dont want to because at the moment the quality is 'iffy' on a lot of 3d printing with the 'lined' texture you get.

So essentially i *imagine* what stops them making a nebulon B is the relatively expensive process of setting up the tooling for a big plastic kit that you're not going to sell a lot of. I mean I dont know many people with Tantive IVs or other epic ships.

You'd sell them to a few obsessive collectors and a few 'epic' gamers but i bet you'd struggle to get a reasonable return on your investment so you *could* outsource them but then you're not in control of the quality.

If these are the peeps that usually have eBay listings for wrecked Corvettes, GR-75's and large ships like the Falcon and Decimator, I don't know as if I have a problem with this. Those wrecks were most likely an FFG model cut up and made wrecked then cast into a mold. Thinking that can't be on the up and up.

Exactly right. Buying one or two models to chop up into wreckage, then casting them to mold copies to sell for profit is nice, but kinda sketchy in legal/IP terms.