When I first bought this plane I did not have a landing gear it just had a bent piece of wire shoved into the bottom of the fuselage to slide across the ground on impact. No landing gear is okay if you're just going to Belly land in grass but I want to mount a camera to the bottom of the plane so I need more clearance and I need something to contact the ground to keep the camera from hitting when coming in for a landing.
The plane has a plywood plate glued into the bottom of it with a reinforced block on top of that for the original landing gear so I am going to fabricate landing gear to use the existing holes. The sketch at the bottom shows a cutaway of the front part of the cowling with a wooden motor mount and the wooden landing gear block. I bent the wire from the local hobby shop to go into the openings on the wood block and then covered the metal wire with hot glue and screwed a plate of sheet metal over the wire to hold it into the wood. I purchase some of the same wheels that I used when I upgraded my Super Cub landing gear to make it easier to land in higher grass. ( See SuperCub landing gear upgrade post). The wheels have to be drilled out to accept the larger wire size used for the axles. I slid the wheels on and used hot glue to cap the end of the axle and prevent the wheels from coming off.
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