The main rear landing gear of one of my older 1/48 F/A-18 Superhornet's broke right after building.
My solution was to use a cut up paperclip to use as a flexible but somewhat rigid core. I marked the center part of center of the gear strut, like you would if your were going to drill it out.
Because the gear struts were somewhat hollow, if you drilled it the gear would break apart. I had to do something a bit different.
I took a pair of longnose pliers and heated up an end of a paperclip till it was hot enough to melt plastic. In one motion I plunged the red h