Steampunk Challenge - Frenzy at the end

Here's where I'm at now:


I've made a lot of progress but the deadline is looming and it looks like another very late night. Now I'm hearing that the CGTalk server is once again exploding and so I may not be able to upload my "final" image anyway, so all this work will be - in terms of this contest - for nothing.

It will not be for nothing in terms of getting a really cool image in my portfolio.