Wednesday 7 April 2010

Bf109G-6 Heinrich Bartels IV./JG 27 (2)

Pictures of Bartel's 'Kanonboot' machine - taken at the time of his 70th victory - are well known, but when building my model I was still unable to ascertain what the upper wing camo might have looked like, or whether the aircraft had white wingtips - until I discovered the lower image in the Japanese Luftwaffe Warbirds Photo Album series (Vol I). Time for a bit of a re-spray...