May 29 - Lil' Chango

“Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.”

~ Douglas Adams
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Lil' Chango is one of Buster Balloon's designs available at balloon-animals.com.  Monkeys are probably one of the most often created balloon animals and I already know how to make a few of them, so why spend $5 on this video?

I've heard this from many people, which is why I thought I would share the reasons why I buy/build from so many tutorials, but so as not to detract from today's post - it is a separate link.

Buster is fun to learn from, he's a big ball of goof - and shows very clearly how to construct this.  This head structure is similar to the bullfrog, and makes a very effective body, but I wasn't able to get the ears to sit in a way that I like and kept trying to force them not to droop.  Also, I would say this feels more like a "display" than "play" piece the way the arms sit around the loose neck connection.

The purple one has a Tinky-Winky look to him.  With some slight modifications this might be a very effective Teletubbie!

	Tinky-Monkey
He is going to make me some slippers when he's done.

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Other posts with Buster's designs:

• December 28 - Dagon
• March 5 - Horb Trollputee
• March 2 - Horb Yuck
• March 1 - Horb Quadropus
• February 28 - Horb Kraken
• February 27 - Horb Bitey
• February 26 - Horb Bear
• February 25 - Dorb Circus Animals
• February 22 - Dorb Birds
• February 21 - Dorb Skunk
• January 29 - Birthday Cars
• December 31 - Tasmanian Pig
• December 30 - Tasmanian Yeti
• December 29 - Tasmanian Tree
• December 28 - Tasmanian Reindeer
• December 27 - Tasmanian Santa
• December 26 - Tasmanian Elf
• November 1 - Shrunken Head
• October 30 - Surly Pig
• October 29 - Surly Ghost
• October 28 - Surly Fish
• October 27 - Surly Frank
• October 26 - Surly Devil
• October 25 - Surly Alien
• October 24 - Surly Pumpkin

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