looking good i too chose this as my first project in maya.I have been working on it for around a week now and have learned bucket loads , but saying that I made one drastic error and want to point it out to others that might try this tutorial....at the end of the head modeling part Kurt suggest we smooth the model to see what it really looks like, I did this and then somewhere after managed to delete the history so now although I have a head I like, I have to remake it so I will be able to attatch it to the body as I am really not up to attatching two smoothed objects.

Oh incase you want to see my 1st attempt here is a sample :