Weapon replacement mod- How hard would it be?

[5t3v0]

This may seem request-y but knowing a lot of places policies on "Stolen content" mods (like what happened to Ahzteks mod and the Book of Earache mod) I think I would have to do this one myself, but how difficult is it to create a Weapon replacement mod akin to the Book of Earache mod but for TTW?

I was using BoE, but I disagreed with a couple of the weapon choices but mainly realised that it didn't replace all weapons, and not only that, its built in fire selector conflicts with the other, newer and (in my opinion for the most part) better Select fire mod.

So what I'm asking is, for a person who has played many games modded but never done some serious modding, how hard would a Personal project like this be for TTW?

[LT Albrecht]

So a personal project that just replaces weapon models, tweaks some stats etc? So long as you're not making the models and they're already New Vegas compatible & rigged it is literally a 5 minute job.

[5t3v0]

Ah okay. Guess I gotta figure out what I have to replace. I'm thinking about using BoE as the base as I didn't mind most of it, but it doesn't replace the vanilla Fallout 3 weapons that weren't in New Vegas such as the Combat shotgun and the Assault rifles.

[gnubee]

I do this with BoE and AWOP using FNVEdit.  For example, I prefer the Vanilla Lucky and Ranger Sequoia, but I place the BoE Replacers in Chet's inventory as  "Devil's Mistress" & "Carbon Hunting Revolver."  I also make the AWOP Lever ACtion Shotgun use 12ga ammo.

[5t3v0]

Its been a few days, but do I use GECK or FNVedit? Any tutorials that can point me in the right direction?