I will chime in here and agree with Matt that adding the extra cloth is worthwhile. I glassed the whole gear plate on my super extra with 200gm (i think??) carbon fibre cloth. I also glassed the joints where the gear plate structure butts against the fuselage sides.
Doing this saved my model from puching its spats through the wing. I had an 'out landing' in long grass as a result of a dead stick on the maiden flight, 44 pounds coming to a dead stop would normally rip the gear plate straight outta the fuse with the result of the wheel spats punching holes in the bottom of the wings.
Instead the landing legs delaminated and took the brunt of the force, but didnt give in completely causing havoc on my wings.
Heres a few pictures of mine, on this model the legs bolt in from the bottom making it easy to reinforce the gear plate.....
link o build thread... might be something there that is useful.....
Comp-ARF Super Extra Futaba Scheme.
Good luck with your build, I hope to see her flying in the comps soon.