Hi Heike and welcome to the forum. You can obtain Balloon Magic from Qualatex direct as well or you could email Patrick directly via his website, http://www.ballonkunstenaarpatrick.nl/ and he may give you details of where to purchase the magazine or instructions from. He does have a DVD out but not sure if the little guy is featured.

If you posted an attempt at the model I'm sure we would all give you some hints and tips on making the model if you went wrong.

The website for the product; http://airswimmers.com/

If you do a search on here a few things come up which may help. I remember three people posting wearable boats, Krazy Kev, Amanda & Thelma and there are a few smaller ones.
On my portfolio page of my website there is a small boat/ship.

Perhaps a slightly smaller head and an extra 160 either side of the orange breast, it looks like Thelma has seven 160's at the side and back of the actual bird body.

Zakh stayed over last night and we played with the balloons, ended up with a quick 2 balloon crossbow.

That is a nice funny sign, made me laugh.

I hope the day is very enjoyable and keep out of the pubs!

The rabbits are coming along nicely, when I took this picture of them they were all cleaning each other. There eyes are still shut but should be opening soon.
The new rabbit cages, I need to get some lino to put on the top for easy clean especially with the birds pooing everywhere.

I did make a couple of variations but think the original does the job best as it's a basic interactive balloon if held and as they say less is more.
I shaped the wings and tail plane and added a seperate balloon for the head.

I also vaguely remember years ago making a one balloon clown with a similar head design, those that add good artwork made this an excellent model but with just the basic features from myself I think it's a bit lacking. It was a bit of a memory jogger though.

Number 26

Half way through but eight months into the year, oops! Still never mind I'll keep plodding along.

Twisted Toppers, Stretch The Balloon Dude

On this DVD from July 2006 are an Airplane, Alien Bug 1 & 2, Alien Elephant, Arch Heart, Arrow Thru Head, Cow, Crazy Fan, Electric Shock, Eyeball, Side Double Eye,
Top Double Eye, Flying Antenna, Funky Jester, Princess Crown, Silly Bug 1 & 2, Cowboy, Fire-fighter, Alligator Mask, Witch Mask and a Dragon Mask.

The Aeroplane and Crazy fan for me were the pick, the Crazy fan being a fun head from an 11" balloon and put onto a hat and the Aeroplane hat or on a stick I think is 100% usable especially in the real world situation.

I think this DVD falls into the same ideas as the Balloon Utopia tape I have with many crazy design hats rather than a specific product, i.e a Giraffe Hat, a Sheep hat etc etc.

The plane is as described on the DVD,
it may work nicely as just to hold the 260 which makes the head and then the children could fly the plane about while doing some red arrow type stunts.

I think a picture of all the flowers being given out or the audience holding them after the gig would have been a great shot.

What about pre-stretching the tip end like you would if doing a poodle tail or putting a bubble at the nipple end of the balloon.
I think Dennis blew the 321 up to the tip point and then pushed the air along from the main body of the balloon, you may need to re-tie the end of the balloon though after this.

Have updated the news page with details about Thelma's article in the Sunday People and The Mail on Sunday online; http://www.balloonchat.co.uk/

Always looking for more info to put up so if you have anything balloon related then please let me know as I can give a link to your website as well which will help in the google rankings.

The rabbit looks really small in the picture but is one of those giant ones about 3ft tall, the flowers must have taken a while to make but looking very colourful.

Yes Thelma and I are still selling the DVD, always will. It's at the top of the page here; http://www.balloonartwholesale.co.uk/catal ... -14-1.html