This is pretty awesomrme stuff! Im really interested in and curious how the finished version of that helmet will look and exactly how you achieved making something like that?
Did you record yourself making it at all? If not, you should start doing so as im sure that people would find some of these things helpful/informative/interesting. Could possibly even create a following from doing so.. ?
Also, get that wand stained already! I wanna see how closely it resembles the original! Though, i will say from the picture you showed.. the tip doesnt seem to match up that well in smoothness/roundness.. and the end/tip area looks to me like it could be thinned out a bit more to help replicate the original.