Goodday Ray and Yoav, thanks for your comment. It's very logical to keep landing gears and bays as clean as possible as this is the best way during inspection to notice any issue. I'm just a private pilot (we call ourselves "the happy few"....) but landing gear inspection is also part of the pre-flight walk-around, and a clean landing gear makes inspection easier and more reliable.
Yoav, if you have actual IAF pictures to share, I would be very pleased. The pictures I found on the internet show very well maintained and clean undercarriages so don't disappoint us
. Thank you for the effort.
And perhaps, wouldn't this be a good moment to consider including landing gears in your models
....?
Regards,
Erik