hi everyone Im looking to do some character modelling in 3ds Max is there any good websites or tutorials for beginners that anyone has used that would be able to help me out cheers

I would stress following one as very robust and correctly informative.

Also you should know, that there are multitudes of ways how to do the same thing in 3ds max.

http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/1203-Introduction-to-Modeling-for-Games-in-3ds-Max