ORIGINAL: SCALECRAFT

Thanks for taking the time to explain. I did misunderstand " forward rake" and "parallel to the leading edge" as it was used.

Just for infos sake, Century Jet retacts are a drop in for this model also, but flying ( and crashing) assorted sizes of pretty scale configured 109s for around 20 years led me to conclude that the current LG set up is a problem (for me anyway) waiting to be improved/solved. .

I am always trying to avoid putting new cash into a model if I have hardware that I can make work. My fix will be a few hours of fun design/building and cost relatively nothing. And believe me, I have a accumulated a lot of stuff over the years and saved a ton of money. Plus I try to make a lot of my parts from composites.

If this was something like a P-51, the LG wouldn't matter much. I have the CMP 54" span P51 and the CMP 72" span P51. They are easy on the ground.

BobQ, Basically what I have done is removed the forward rail and cut another just like it, then mount the retract to the free rails, then glue them into the "as scale" position as possible. The rails are beveled at an angle to sweep back towards scale retract position, the original wheel wells.. The rails are cut to fit between the original 2 ribs, then reinforced.

I'll post pics when I have the configuration. If you can post a pic of what you have, it would help as well.

Steve