She is on her legs! (*)

(*) From a French language/culture stand point, I feel it a bit shocking for my RV-12 to be called a "she" but I am told that, as an air ship, it is the right way to call her. Darn Brits!

Well, kind of on her legs:

As you can see, I am missing the front wheel and here is the culprit:
 

The axle diameter is 625thou vs the bearing hole of 618thou: Aurora, we have a problem!
I decidedly had no luck with the landing gear, after the bad tire, a bad wheel. I understand that these are problems with the part suppliers of VANs but I would advise VANs to put some pressure on  those suppliers who have quality problems (earlier this year there was a more serious problem with the welding of flaperon actuators, also produced outside VANs).
I am waiting from VANs after they contact the supplier MATCO but I see a new wheel delivery in my future.
01/11/2012 update:
After investigation VAN's determined that the axle was not machined to the correct dimensions. I received a new axle and everything is now in order, we are on three wheels now!
The installation of the nose gear wheel will conclude section 35 per the instruction sheets below

The left gear is in

As for the right gear, I needed help and even with two pairs of hands, there was quite a bit of crawling and strugling to get the bolts trough and securely torqued to specs. The second pair of hands was provided by François again. Here he is trying to put a wheel on (or is he just warming his butt? - it was a cold day as the heater behind him shows):