Merging meshes - Nifskope sufficient?

[Jormungandr]

So .. the lack of real necromancer themed armor punched me to the point where i thought i'm trying to do my own stuff, the dirty lame and easy way..starting with pauldrons i downloaded http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/26617 and retextured it really nice, trying to add some skulls to them ends up in a error 112 in nifskope and a big fat exclamation mark in skyrim. So my question is; is there some super genius science required to do this or is it possible for a complete moron like me to do it if somebody gives me some hints/advice?

[Guest]

I guess the skulls aren't part of any armor, if so you'd probably have to weight the skulls to the shoulders but I got no idea if you can do that in Nifskope.

I only got basic knowledge of Nifskope and 3DS max.

[thatTESguy]

You have to weigh in 3ds max/blender; you can copy models (with weights) between models in Nifskope as long as the skeleton has the appropriate bones.

[Jormungandr]

So there is rocket science required, great.

 

I've no idea about Blender or 3dsmax, but i know of some stuff that uses vanilla meshes, including skulls, it's mostly weapons but wouldn't that work?