ORIGINAL: doxilia

MJ,

I see. Well, I would consider going with a belly mounted gear in that case. It should be much easier than wrestling to mount a FW nose gear. As you've seen the tank plate is 1/16" ply so you'll want to beef it up at the FW junction. I would use 1/4" ply and just keep an eye out for where your tank plate needs to go in order to clear the 2" nose wheel. Note that the fuse bottom fore of the wing LE is slanted so this distance is not necessarily 2" and change. Then you'll need to space the gear from the 1/4" ply in order to make sure the strut spring clears the fuse bottom.

... maybe obvious things but since I'm also building a pair, I thought it might help.

David.