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The Thing "John Byrne style" bust
Garage kit built then painted using brushes and Vallejo acrylic.
Sculpted (4 parts) by Jim Maddox.
Assembled and painted by me (Das).
This sculpt is inspired by the John Byrne era on the Fantastic Four.
Who's The Thing? He's mainly a Marvel
character and…Born on Yancy Street in New York City's Lower East Side, Benjamin Jacob "Ben" Grimm had an early life of poverty and hardship, shaping him into a tough, streetwise scrapper.
Excelling in football as a high school student, Ben received a full scholarship to Empire State University, where he first met his eventual lifelong friend in a teenaged genius named Reed Richards.
Some years later, Reed Richards, now a successful scientist, once again makes contact with Grimm. Richards has built his spaceship, and reminds Grimm of his promise to fly the ship.
During this unauthorised ride into the upper atmosphere of Earth and the Van Allen Belts, they are pelted by a cosmic ray storm and exposed to radiation. Upon crashing down to Earth, each of the four learn that they have developed fantastic superhuman abilities. Grimm's skin is transformed into a thick, lumpy orange hide. Richards proposes the quartet band together to use their new abilities for the betterment of humanity, and Grimm, in a moment of self-pity, adopts the super-heroic sobriquet, The Thing.
