I just wanted to know if doing it the way I had it in the picture would suck or not.
Suck? Jeez man, have some confidence.
Usually, most schemes can be made to work, it just becomes a matter of cost/weight/packaging/style. OK, on airplane parts, add in aero drag. There are successful flat spring landing gear legs with vertical attachments to the fuselage and then bent outboard then bent back to vertical where a standard landing gear axle is attached. So, your scheme can work - similar things have been done. It might turn out to be heavier or draggier or whatever, but it can be made to work. The devil is in the details - that is where we find one scheme is more expensive and/or heavier and/or does not fit and/or looks bad and/or is draggy. So you look at other options and keep doing it until you find one that is acceptable.
A couple things about airplane landing gear that folks forget - how do you attach it to the airplane? You want to select the system that makes for the best overall solution, not just the lightest detail someplace. Sometimes a less than optimal piece in one place makes for the optimal system.
Billski