Howdy..... Wow, great build... a word to the wise tho, those planes seem to be a passion, which is good, you seen very articulate which is also good. Their in lies the problem, as I have found out, repeatedly the more passion that goes into the build, the more critical is the end result. Critical to the crash that is..... The many posts that suggest training out on your own arf or a clubs trainer is Very Important... and hopefully you will have a buddy box hooked up for the critical first flights of your own birds.... Todays ARF's and RTF's only cost you dollars not sense..
I didn't notice if you had rsolved the landing gear "skirts" thought, but here is my 2 cents, on landing and takeoff an incredible amount of force is applied to that point, flexibility is essential, stiffining up the gears in my guess will result in fractured covering materials. Just a thought...... Good luck with those planes!!!!!!! Captain Crash been there done that, hahahah