Hi guys.

I used to fly a Calypso over twenty years ago in F3A.
Following a mid-air during a practice session I just could not bring myself to throw it away after it had served me so well.
Even when I moved house ten years ago I took the damaged model with me.
The strange thing is that I remember the model looking so large as a youngster. Now after flying 2m and large Caps, Extras etc,
it seems tiny.

best of luck with yours

I think my Calypso was also from your time. It was in someone else house for 10 years or so before it came to me. You can tell from the condition of the box.

But it is a very nice flyer I must say.

hello guys, I had my calypso for about 10 years and crashed it this last weekend!!![] (Brain Fart)

I was wondering if anyone had one and was intrested in selling it please let me know!!!! It was a great flying model and i will miss it.

Sorry to hear the bad news. 10 years is a long time. [:@]

well its okay now I actually just found one on ebay and purchased it!! Now I cant wait to get it ,assemble it and head out to
the field!!!!!!

That's great. Post build pictures here if you like. Calypso build thread will be super-antic in another 10 years time.

I had two Modeltech Calypso's back in 1985, they were powered by the OS 61 Long Stroke, I was 15 back then..... I left the hobby 3 years later, and restarted two years ago. Now I'm flying a 72" Yak 54, but I will surely like to get my hands in a Modeltech Calypso again. The plane was excellent, and it flew like a dream. Any one knows were can I find one ???

Francesco.

Hi Francesco,

Did you receive the email and attachments that I sent on Friday (24th)?

Cheers!

Hi Mechplas !!! Received the attachments perfectly, thanks a lot for your help.

regards,
Francesco.

Great!!! Have Fun!

How about the orange with a deeper red. There are a lot of different shades of red and it looks like the red you're using there doesn't give enough contrast. Notice how the black gives interest with it's contrast. Unfortunately, to me at least, it doesn't do more.

Now, how about doing a checkerboard in those wide swaths that're around the fuselage. The checkerboard undersides are so striking, it just seems a shame not to carry that impact to the top somehow. And think about those checkerboards being something like the diamonds that're "flaking off" the cowling color on the Sukhoi in the attached photo. Those are an ARF workers effort and not very well done, but that's the idea.

Also, think about the possibility of using a white pinstripe between the colors. Some small details add quite a bit sometimes. When I added the black sunrays to the Sukhoi in the pictures, the plan was to white pinstripe all the rays as is done on the empennage, but I ran out and didn't have any white tape for the wings' rays. See the difference in impact between the wing's rays and the empennage's rays.

Is this model for sale? I'm new to the site so if it's intuitive that it is I apologize