Merlin's hunting trophy

	Prototype of a dragon
	Recently, Balloonacy received the request to facilitate kings, knights, and, especially, the combatting of dragons at a children's party. The story should be Arthurian, featuring King Arthur, Merlin, and a grail. We liked the idea of working on a story about heroism. Plying balloons in order to build a tall dragon - seriously exceeding the height of a toddler - is not an every-day job. This page holds a number of pictures of prototypes, and of the event. The dragon's head (full size) had been put up on the wall as a hunting trophy. In addition to that, scale (pun not intended) models (1:3) have been produced. Deviating colours have been used in the first model, giving more of an impression of how the dragon was constructed. I found that even this relatively small model tends to attract toddlers. The photographs are "clickable" for obtaining "enlargements", but from these enlargements, the only way back is by using your web-browser's "back"-button.

Prototype of a dragon