A few days ago I went searching for a tutorial to see if I was doing things the way every one else was. All I could find for 3DS MAX 8 was a polygon modeling tutorial (I found a ton for all the other versions and they helped a bit but half the menus/tools had different names so it was a bit confusing) basically (if I had followed it) I would have made a gun like that. But I didn't want to use the tutorials gun and I couldn't find any pictures to model it against so I gave up.
Edit: I was cleaning up my folders (deleteing/sorting my crappy models seperateing my good models) and I ran into two models I had forgoten about but had really liked. I don't know if I posted them before but I'm to lazy to check. One is a shank that I made eons ago and just found now (if my exporter was working I'd give it a non crudy handle and export it). The other is a scout blockoman I made because I was bored (I liked the bat and the hat was ok for the four seconds I spent on it but I hated the pack).
Edit: I can't get the pictures to post in this post so I will have to double post so I can post them in the next post.