Heres some modelling iv been doing in my spare time, its from a maya learning book "the game artists guide to maya" which i got many months ago, though didnt realise you needed a general understanding of the software to use it. Though after our lesson last week, i gave it another try and found it much easier to navigate, though this is just the beginning, the second part is to create a monster to go with it, which i will post at a later date, as i left the disc which came with it back home.

the image behind i used as reference. helps a great deal.