Which NexSTAR is this? The RTF or ARF? Reason I ask is because back when I was going through training, I did the exact same thing, but not in a dead-stick landing.. I landed quite hard and busted up the main gear.

Mine was the RTF version with the "plastic" locking main gear assembly.

What I ended up doing is putting it back together, piecing the sections of plastic locking mechanism together, put a re-inforcing piece of ply and then loaded it up with epoxy. It was never able to come apart after that, but it didn't break again, either.. even with the abuse I gave it.

CGr.