Converted Ogre Firebelly WIP

We're now into the week leading up to Rumble in the Bronx, and I am still not close to ready. I have not been idle, however. I have started painting my converted Steam Tank/Ironblaster thingy, and I even have the first of my character models ready for paint!

The only magic in my list for the weekend is a level 1 Firebelly with the Ruby Ring. I quite like the proper Firebelly model, but never bought one and don't intend to. Instead I figured I would make an Ogre-sized Bright Wizard, based on one of the old 4th edition Empire models. It fits my theme better. Anyway, I put him together last week and he is now undercoated and ready to go, if a little rough...

My concept model on the left, and the very early WIP Ogre on the right. I started with some cloned legs and a torso I already had in a bag, and ended up using real plastic Ogre arms and a head.

Here he is by himself. Long way to go yet.

After a couple of goes at him with green stuff, this was how he looked. The lantern is off the Steam Tank I murdered to make my Ironblaster.

The view from the rear. At this point he's obviously been filed a bit to clean up some of the roughness.

After another couple of bouts of work, this is as far as he's getting. He's a bit rough, but paint will probably help.

I've copied some of the detail from the human model, but generally this guy is less detailed.

This was as close as I got to copying the human wizard's staff. I cut up a plastic Warhammer Quest bat, and then turned it into a dragon-ish sort of thing. Again, I am relying upon the paint to clean it up a bit and make it look the part. Hopefully I'm not expecting too much from that step...

So once I have this guy painted (or maybe in between painting steps), I need to start work on my other 3 characters - Tyrant, BSB and Hunter. I kinda sorta maybe know how I want them to look. I'd better get that sorted. I only have 4 evenings left to work on them. This is going to be tight.