Personally, I would take landing gear in scale location over better ground handling. As for higher wing loading, this bird is already too floaty, so a slightly higher wing loading might make it land better.
Exactly Richard, in fact earlier when you mentioned that it was a floater I knew what I had to do!
Thanks Woody!
Dion keep building and get back to work !!!!
I have been, have some pictures for you all!
First I must say that the CJ gear are kind of barbaric, to get them to fit and the doors to work took a little head scratching. Those using the Sierra gear will have a much easier time.
First thing I did was cut 3/16" off the stock mounting blocks. This will sink the gear into the wing just enough to get the doors to close. Good thing the doors have that bulge, you will need it!
I noticed that the gear actually folds more than it should and the wheel is not flat in the well, this is good for us because it helps to bring those huge scissors into the well. The doors are slightly crooked on the gear, but it looks OK and it'll look great in the air with the gear retracted!
I used small hardwood blocks for mounting the doors, for now they are just tack glued to the struts, but later I will add brass straps and small screws to hold them on.
The small front door posed a problem for me, how to shut it!
Well I figured out the slickest way possible I think! The main door has a small wire mounted to it bent to conform to the airfoil, the wire sits under the small door when the gear are retracted. When you lower the gear the small door just rides up the wire as it's pushed open. The small door will be held shut with a small light tension spring from a broken printer. The gear actually have 3 doors, but 2 out of 3 aint bad! When it's all painted white I think it'll look pretty cool. The front door is a small piece of flight skin, .012 fiberglass sheet cut to shape.
I tried all kinds of wheels and only one worked to my satisfaction, and that is the Dave Brown light wheels, 3 1/2".
Dion