At a re-use crafts store in St. Paul a few weeks back, I found a bag of paper sticks -- they appear to be the same as the sticks that Tootsie Pops come on -- and at the time, it struck me that they would be perfect for something like landing gear legs, and it would be easy enough to fashion a tube around them for them to fit in.
It was a good find. I'd eaten plenty of Tootsie Pops, but I never could find a way to fully clean the part that the candy is on without damaging the paper.
If you live in a decent-sized city, you should look around for shops of these kinds; they can be a goldmine of great parts, and I would think they could be greeblie heaven for a build like the shuttle from
Outland.
Here's the website for the shop I was talking about:
ArtStart
And here's a partial directory of similar shops in other states:
The Scrap Box