Is there any really basic tuts for real beginners. About the only thing I can do is create primitives but then what?
I tried the tuts listed by _Shank but both assume experience with MAX.
Please help lame me!!!!!

Hundreds of beginner tutorials for 3dsMax:
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=3ds ... ginner&lr=
Allways nice to see new people getting interested in 3dsMax, so good luck!

Thanks for the encouragement. I hope to be able to do my own modeling soon. I am a programmer and have done some team work on a Java Card Game, and did a clone of Tetris in Visual Basic.Net. But I want to do all aspects of game development so I can do a complete game by myself.
With a lot of work I may be able to accomplish this feat.

Some of the best resources for beginners are the ones that come with MAX. Check the tutorial resources, they're in HTML help files and offer quite a number of interesting topics.
I was just on 3D buzz.com and they had a lot of web tutorials for 3D studio Max. grabbed a bunch for myself.
3dtotal.com is an excelent source for tutorials. the forums at threedy.com are another great place to ask questions/post your work.