What Skills Must I Aquire to merge three weapons?

[PrivateJoker]

Hi

 

I really like the laser recharger DX that comes with the Gun Runners Arsenal. It is powerful and does a good amount of damage aswell as being a recharger weapon. However it looks like crap.

 

My idea is to create a stylished recharger weapon based on the 12 mm pistol. The three openings in the centre will be filled with the recharge veins from the recharge pistol and I would add an energy compartment in front of the trigger using parts from the plasma defender. Finally it would feature a focused pointer silencer which would be taken from the tip of the laser RCW.

 

It would require minimal changing of the 12mm model itself, a chopping of parts of the other weapons I would like to use and paste in BLENDER. And a merge of a couple of textures in GIMP.

 

I have installed the mod tools required, however what I want to do is very specific and the blender tutorials makes me go through a lot of 3D theory. Is this a big operation to learn and do as a newbie?

 

Example I want to remove some vertexes and fill the gaps created on the 12 mm model. How do I fill the gaps? The closest connection I have is navmeshing in the creation kit where i press "merge" and it is done. Not so here.

 

 

I really dont have the vocabulary needed to describe this so here are pictures making it very clear what I want to do.

 

 

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/125/utennavnv.jpg

 

 

Here you see the "engine" compartment with the two pillars removed. This should be one square and the gaps needs to be filled accordingly.

 

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5460/utennavn1.jpg

 

This is what I mean with the "veins" of the recharge gun. How do I place this here keeping the flashing animation as the shots are fired?

 

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2997/utennavn2z.jpg

 

To further distinguish the 12mm gun from the vanilla version and make it more like an energy weapon, I would want to chop up the plasma defender and use parts from it on this recharge laser.

Take the top of the plasma caster to create a new iron sights and a new top of the 12mm.

Take the tip of the caster and place it inside the barrel of the 12mm

Create an energy compartment with yellow lights instead of green in front of the trigger.

 

Is this too difficult for a newbie to do this? :unsure: