Scale Aircraft Conversions specializes in providing aftermarket/replacement landing gear made of white metal. This particular set is of the recently released 1/48 Hs 129 B-2/3 from Takom.

The set includes two main landing gear struts, four sets of brackets to mount the landing gear struts to the landing gear wheel well, a two-part tail wheel (yoke and spinner) plus a foot-rest to help the pilot to climb on the wing to board the cockpit.

All parts are straight drop-in replacement parts, so no modification should be necessary. You can see from the pictures the parts are very cleanly molded and formed, with no visible molding lines.

Some parts will need to be released from their casting frames and instructions on how to work with white metal parts (detaching, handling, painting, safety, etc.) are available at https://scaleaircraftconversions.com/using-white-metal/

In my personal opinion, the use of white metal landing gear is due to one (or both) of the following reasons: either is if the model is very heavy (either due to size or added resin detail sets) and/or due to the ability to be lightly bent to achieve the proper stance on the ground for your model.

Recommended to modelers of all skill levels.

I would like to thank Scale Aircraft Conversions and IPMS/USA for the review sample.