There's some really good entries going on, I've only just had the time to go through everyone's, my apologies for not writing any comments yet, I'll try to make some more time to do so soon.
Here's my update, not tons added but I plan to try and get a load done tomorrow night, so hopefully I'll be a good step closer to finishing then, still don't know if I'll get a good final image done for the final, but I've started playing about with lighting now so you never know.
When I render with all the lights on etc I have to do it from the command line, so will probably not show any of those until nearer the end.