ORIGINAL: KitBuilder
SunDevPilot....
I'm quite sure the struts are non-functional as the wing incorporated center joiners, etc and is built as one piece. I'm going to add the ''jury'' struts to keep the scale appearance and also make up some functional landing gear. A fellow from one of the scale sites sent me some pics of the unwrapped full size cub gear. Basically a rod in a tube with cross bars and bungee.
According to the assembly manual for their 40 size ARF, the struts are functional on the Great Planes Cub. The kit built plane may be different, but they appear very much alike. Robart 1/5 scale Cub gear fits perfectly and looks/functions like the full scale gear. It's a huge improvement to the Great Planes gear.