I know that everybody will immediately start laughing ...
In the case of broken, short or damaged struts for 1:72 scale aircraft I found a pretty good replacement:
8) 8) *DRY FIR NEEDLES * 8) 8)
They are hard enough to work with, you can paint them without problems (they even look like wood without colour!) and glueing is no problem! They are cheap and there is no problem to have a few hundreds different of them in the spare-parts box.
I´m waiting for some answers ...
Best regards
Volker Nemsch