MikeyD Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I had to laugh. I just received the latest issue of the Brit 'Military Modelling' magazine and two things about it caught my eye. First on the cover was a French Napoleonic soldier with the title 'old grumbler' ...a.k.a. grognard? Has someone been lurking on our forum? Second was an article on the big 1:16 scale Trumpeter T34-84. Very nice looking model, but I was surprised to see the turret side slogan "Forward to Berlin" EXACTLY matched the alt. slogan on my T34-85 M43 mod! Okay okay, maybe we both based it on the same photo. But it was a rather bad obscure photo The slogan in the lower right 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 I think the 'old grumbler' terminology has been around for a long time, and the modeling usage is probably parallel and independant from boardgame or CM-speak. I used to (and still do) pay regular visits to web-grognards long before I had ever heard of combat mission, and remember someone from Talonsoft using it in a telephone conversation in the 90's (when he was trying to explain to me why he thought that adapting the earlier incarnation of John Tiller's system to the battle of Leipzig was impossible). As for the image of the T-34...I scrounge for images anywhere I can find them, so why not? As I think you yourself have pointed out, digital space is a wonderfully flexible modeling platform, so sooner or later cross-fertilization is going to occur. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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