The Airbus official website has wisely shown only pictures of the A380 in flight and no detailed technical drawings are available. However, the contracts are already out to BFGoodrich for the landing gears, so the design must be frozen somehow or someway if metal's already being cut for this bird.
According to Aerospace-Technology.com, it's four-wheel trucks under the wings and six-wheel trucks under the fuselage.
Revell's 1/144 A380 kit also has four-wheel trucks under the wings and six-wheel trucks under the fuselage.
Aviation Week is also reporting that the main gears will have a similar layout.
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