A Few Modeling Questions

[shawn2008]

Hi. Im a new-b who has just started getting into modeling. I messed with 3ds max for a little over a month now and I feel that I am ready to start with modeling. I found this really sweet tutorial that explains everything that I was wondering how to do but the problem is. some things aren't explained thurouly enough. so heres my few questions to this community.

Question 1: How do I go about making the very first picture in this tutorial? It is obviously in the viewport but i can SEE THE BITMAPS! Not only that but they are aligned correctly. Can someone please explain to me the process of setting this up?

http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/body1.asp

Question 2: I understand how the first 6 polygons were created in the link below but about half way down the page all of a sudden polygons are being added left and right and up and down!!! I know how to make a plane but i know creating this plane by plane is not how it was done. Can somebody please explain to me how to do this?

http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/hair1.asp

Well that's all the questions that I have for now but chances are good that I will have more in the future. Thanks for your time!

[emi-sphere]

For question 2: I think they're doing box modelling with an editable mesh. So first step would to make a box, right-click, convert to, edit mesh. Then in the modifier stack go to the polygon sub object. Click on a polygon. Then in edit geometry hit extrude and then click and drag your poly. Hope this helps
For the first question I'm not sure i understand, you say you can see your images and that they are aligned correctly.....so what's not working?