Next I installed the landing gear legs. I was happy to see that gone are the days when you had to work on the fuselage openings to install the gear. I didn’t have to open anything up. But not gone is the difficulty in getting the gear bolted in. It is really fiddly to get the backing plate with the blind nuts installed in the correct position so that it engages the bolts. What helped for me was to use slightly longer bolts then supplied and grind a point on them. This acts as a lead and makes engaging the nuts much easier.
I was a little tempted to do what I have done in the past, and that is to glue the blind nut plate to the LG leg. You then have to cut a clearance slot in the fuse for the plate to slide in with the gear leg. It’s underneath the gear so it doesn’t look that bad. But I wanted to keep this fuse pristine so I fiddled with the gear until it was mounted.