I think show tool is in preferences, but I don't really use it.
Nice balloon! It's good to do these kinds of things and this is how I learned Hex-1, just by watching the Steph3D and Thomas videos over and over again and copy-catting them. If a picture says a thousand words, a movie says a million and you can learn tricks and workflows by watching them faster than any book can teach you. You not only get to show others a way to do something, but you can also get a lot out of it yourself. Looking at the workflow I'm sure you noticed some things yourself. You might try to leverage ring and 1n more to avoid all that manual selecting on edges and points. Also something I learned is that extracting edges like in the case of the top of the balloon and then modeling the new geometry directly in place helps you to avoid alignment issues later. This is particularly true when you want to animate things like wheels turning or propellers and stuff and if it is aligned exactly to begin with then later you won't have any headaches or tweaking to do.
Great stuff Rickei, I hope more people do this kind of thing!
Steven