Bf 109G-14/AS of 8./Jg 27. Pilot unknown. This aircraft was found wrecked and abandoned at Rheine-Hopsten in early 1945. That airfield served as II/Jg27's home between November 1944 and March 1945.
This aircraft, a Regensburg built G-14/AS, features camouflage on the wings and fuselage in the gray RLM 74/75 over 76 scheme, with a tail and rudder unit in the late brown and green RLM 81/82 colors. Hazy splotches of RLM 76 cover some portions of the tail. The green tail band of Jg 27 wraps the fuselage aft of the cross. The four digits of the Werk Nummer are indeed stepped downward to the right and not just painted with a slant.
Based on established precedent, I skinned this aircraft on the vanilla G-14. However, I believe that like the G-10's, that the nearly identical G-14/AS's should be skinned on our K-4. The engine performance and speed gained from the aerodynamic cowling make them much closer to the K-4 than the stock G-14. I may break precedent in the future in the case of a G-14/AS that is known to have a 30mm cannon fitted.
