As the author explains that he/she did not have time to prepare for the images, we should re-review the paper with images for the final decision. Or the committee may decide whether ask the author to resubmit the paper or reject it because of over due.  The content is interesting but it is half-done as a research paper as stated above. Total word count is about 3,500 and it should fall into research in progress category. Therefore, I place this paper as conditional.