[LE] Creating a New Armor out of Two Existing Armors?

[NotEverNerevar]

So I've just finished my first real Skyrim mod, and now I'm looking to keep the momentum. The only problem is, my next project might be a little above my relative level of skill with modding tools. To find out if that's true, I came here for a little advice. My objective is to cover up the horrid burnt leather skirt on the Ancient Draugr Cuirass for female bodies with some sort of very nordic-style pelt or cuisses; my favorite candidate so far is the Executioner's Robes bottom half. My questions about accomplishing this are as follows:

1. How do you create a new piece of armor from two existing in-game armor meshes? I've found a lot of material on working from scratch or modifying one existing piece but very little on actually splicing two together.
2. How difficult would it be to "carve" the fur pelt areas for use out of the Executioner's Robes, avoiding the navy-colored drapes that accompany them, and then fit said pelt on to a female model?
3. Has anybody done something similar yet to improve the very bland and lazy design of the Ancient Draugr Cuirass' lower half for the female mesh?

Edited July 17, 2017 by ElAhrairaha

[Deleted38846565User]

(This is assuming you mean the playable armour and not the kind that are on draugr) Nightasy has a whole playlist of his tutorials for making armour in Skyrim, if you think making armour for Skyrim is a bit above your modding skills then this will help you understand a bit of mesh work. Once you follow it and want to do your idea, you could cut what you want from each armour and then follow the steps he does to rig that armour. For example you could take the top of the executioners armour and delete it leaving the bottom half and the opposite with the draugr, cut and delete the bottom half of it and place them together so they fit. then rig the armour just as he does in his video. If you're new to mesh stuff then this is pretty vague, there's more to do then just that but hopefully it helps in some way. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL38C28CE97107F8F3

[OblivionRanger]

Would this method also work for creating a coin stack?