Bf 109G-6 flown by Franz Stigler of 12./JG 27. Based at Graz, Austria in April 1944.
This skin replaces my "II/Jg 27" skin made 10 years ago, which was rife with errors since I based it on a painting of Stigler's plane during the incident of Dec. 20, 1943 when he escorted the heavily damaged B-17 "Ye Olde Pub" out of German airspace rather than shooting it down.
It is clear now that the scheme depicted in the painting was based on photos of his plane in April 1944, after he was transferred to IV Gruppe. No photos are known to exist of the aircraft he flew flown on Dec. 20, but I am now certain that it was a different plane photographed the following April.
