Next the tip floats

I cut 2x2x6" blocks and was able to blow up a 3-view picture to get the shape, I rough shaped with the disk sander as well.

Now on to attaching to the wire?
I decide to solder a wheel collar to a piece of flat brass and then that go screwed to plastic tube (the inner pieces of Nyrod),, I've used this method to attach to foam before and when you epoxy those in it's very strong. The hard part is tapping the nyrod to accept the wood screw, I find warming the screw with a cigarette lighter helps a lot (no I don't smoke,, but have one in my field box)

I may need to re bend some new wire pieces as the stock landing gear wire may be too short (one broke at the bend when I tried to straighten the 90 deg. bend) Also I still need to clean up the brass mount prior to painting. I'm not going crazy with the fit and finish on this, so forgive the sloppiness.

I'm using the wheel collars, so I can adjust the tip float height, once I fine tune that I'll wrap the wire with balsa or maybe a flat straw???

A quick mock up to get the idea of what it will look like

later