OSL critique - Firebelly

Here's a link to an article from Ron at From The Warp about OSL featuring my attempt with the Ogre Firebelly I did a couple weeks ago.  Some good feedback for anyone trying the technique, and highlights some of the areas I can improve for next time.

Ogre Firebelly Finished

After a couple work in progress posts, here's the finished model.  Overall I'm pretty happy with him, and the fire as a light source was a cool learning experience.  I'm actually more happy with the fire than the OSL look... I've never really had much success with the flame look, and I think this one turned out ok.

Outside of the paint job I'm pretty disappointing with the finecast aspect of this mini.  For the price I'd expect something much higher quality, and this ended up having bubbles and seams all over.  Not enough to call it a miscast, but disappointing considering the price.  I've done a fair number of finecast models and as a whole the only upside I can see is that they are lighter (therefore don't need pinning) and easier to clean mold lines.

Firebelly WIP 2

Here's some pictures of the object source lighting from the flames.  I used reaper paints to accomplish this, and I think it turned out pretty well.  The majority of it was done with Marigold Yellow and then I added some highlights with Sun Yellow and Lemon Yellow.  These went on nice and transparent, so I'm pretty happy with the result.

Firebelly WIP (Ogre Kingdoms)

Working on this guy... same as the rest of my Ogres, except for the OSL with the flame.  I'm going to paint him up fully then do some glazes to do the flame reflections.  I think that should work ok.