Id like to see that. I'm thinking of trying some new stuff on the ft p-51. When it comes out. I've got an idea for a steerable tail wheel.
_/-\_ is the way I normally build the gear for the front. If you imagine looking from the side it looks like this \|/ with the axel at the bottom of the vee. I have successfully used pushrods for the struts... If your handy with knots you can use kite string also.... Wrap it around the gear several times and coat it with CA glue. Then tie around Popsicle sticks inside the fuse. Just try to put equal tension on it in all directions.
If you imagine the gear trying to fold back, the string takes the load pushing in -> this direction.
If the gear tries to fold forward the strong takes the load in the opposite direction. And likewise for the gear spreading(in which case you'd just wrap it multiple times around each leg just giving a slight tension to hold then together slightly.
In a serious crash the string normally fails especially if you use carbon rod to attach it to the fuse.... Have had the Popsicle sticks fail and pull threw the foam.
My favorite thing about this method is that it's basicly invisible once in the air... I wonder if you could use high strength fishing line?
Only issue I see, and it may be a good thing, is that it stretches... It would almost give some kind of suspension to the gear....
Great. Now I've gotta build something. Lmao