Max is a great tool but the best are from version 2011 and up as they have a nice little tool to pain anything on your mesh.
Great if you need to put plants on walls or chatchkies for a space surface like a hull, you simply paint them on a mesh or plane.
Envirements can be tricky for max , it takes me a whole lot longer to get the envirement right then the model itself.
But in all to build models especially vehicles it is a very fast and easy tool
Im currently working one 3 projects a Viper style craft , a Battlestar Galactica Mix style and a Bridge
Also found a nice Cylon voice program on the internet sadly the background noice from the mic gets a bit in the way
