Benjamin J. Grimm grew up as a protective 'older brother' to the picked-upon Reed Richards, and indeed was his only real friend. When one of Reed's experiments went awry and gave them both superpowers along with Reed's girlfriend Susan Storm and her younger brother Johnny; Reed felt a crushing guilt that Ben's transformation also gave him a monstrously deformed body. Despite that, Ben has remained Reed's most loyal friend through thick and thin.
Here we see Ben piloting his module of Reed's 'Flying BathTub':
Ben is a bash of the Showdown Thing (head and neck, pelvic t-bar and legs, and left hand) and the MU Thing (torso) with the arms+socket assemblies from the ML ThorBuster IM (and a butt-ton of FixIt putty) and the right hand from the Xevoz FrankenPunker. Next to complete I've got two Johnnys and a Flight Extension Module to give the BathTub flight capabilities out to the Moon; then I can start on the Flying BathTwob that'll give the family intergalactic flight capacity.
Here's a WIP pic showing the two diff 18th Things bashed together at the waistline, the ML Thorbuster arms, and the FixIt putty on the left arm:
Here we see Ben piloting his module of Reed's 'Flying BathTub':
Ben is a bash of the Showdown Thing (head and neck, pelvic t-bar and legs, and left hand) and the MU Thing (torso) with the arms+socket assemblies from the ML ThorBuster IM (and a butt-ton of FixIt putty) and the right hand from the Xevoz FrankenPunker. Next to complete I've got two Johnnys and a Flight Extension Module to give the BathTub flight capabilities out to the Moon; then I can start on the Flying BathTwob that'll give the family intergalactic flight capacity.
Here's a WIP pic showing the two diff 18th Things bashed together at the waistline, the ML Thorbuster arms, and the FixIt putty on the left arm:
