This mod adds the survivalist power armor to the game essentially power armour with some loving homemade attachments like belt bags , sawn off shotty holster and a chest bag strap. It uses vanilla assests and assets from tailor maid (with permissions) which is a awesome mod and I implore you to check it out! 

\\\Description\\\
The inspiration for the mod was how I wanted tailor maids addons to work with power armour for my character a Engineer turned Survivalist and I quit the game a bit grumpy that it wouldn't work. I then browsed R/fallout on reddit where I saw this:

  This finished it. I HAD to make my custom armour even though I had no skills with nifskope or blender or any nif manipulating program. I spent a few days trying my best trying to figure out nifskope. Turns out its a five minute job when you know what your doing making my armour somewhat unremarkable as a chimpanzee could probably do better. Eventually I managed to piece my armour together. It has minor clipping issues but it isn't anything major and unless this mod somehow gets a surge of popularity I doubt I will have motivation to tweak it.

\\\Recommendations\\\

I also HIGHLY suggest using cabals book of steel for the power armour retexture as the default texture is "ugly" and that's being kind.
I don't have the skills to make the armour look more like the image as much as I would like it too.

The animations used in the images come from hitmans animation pack found on the nexus as "animation resources" most definitely give his animations a go!
and of course I again implore you to check out tailor made!

\\\Location\\\
Anyway enough about me and my ramblings you want to know where the armour is in game right? Well you can craft it at the workbench with a sawed off shotgun , a combat knife , some leather belts (to represent the bags and buckles) and of course some t45-d power armour (both BoS and unmarked)! This requires a 75 survival skill.
What? It is SURVIVALIST power armour it's not that unreasonable! Oh fine you can also find it on a body in a cave that shares its name with a cool ps4 exclusive game that came out this year (that's your clue I'll include the name at the bottom!) you can find it on a new NPC Jim's body ( look in the main chamber) along with a holotape that should give you power armour training and the last ramblings of this evidently failed survivalist. IMPORTANT make sure to grab the 1.1 update if you don't want Jim's body to be floating when you find him!

\\\Stats\\\
This armour has the same stats as the regular t45-d with the exception of having 5 DR as well as the regular DT of the t45-d

\\\Requirements\\\
Just the base game no DLC needed (but really get that DLC its damn good!)
The mod itself

\\\Installation\\\
This will be difficult my friends , first you must go on a journey without rest. To the land of ancient mods the New Vegas file directory. Then you must put the contents of the Rar file into the flames of mount data folder so evil will never rise again. To make sure your adventure was a success simply activate the plugin with the game launcher.

alternatively you could just use your favorite mod manager (I personally like mod organizer).
(Can you tell I like Dark souls and Lord of the rings?)

\\\Updates and option files\\\
As of now all optional files and updates are simply ESP files to use INSTEAD of the main file but you MUST DOWNLOAD the main file for the resources the plugins use. If otherwise the small description under the file will be updated accordingly to display appropriate information.

\\\Compatibility\\\
This mod should be compatible with pretty much any power armour mod retexture as it doesn't edit the main t45-d entry and uses its mesh as a base so any texture or replacer affecting t45-d will affect this. A mod affecting the cave this armour is in might be incompatible but I doubt it as long as it doesn't stop you getting to the body. Of course a mesh replacer will probably cause issues as the addons would appear to float around the armour (although if there is demand I could easily whip up a version that makes the mesh independent of the replacer).


If anyone finds any bugs feel free to post a comment and I'l fix it as soon as I can! 

\\\Permissions and Last Notes\\\

I would like to note that I have full permission from the authors of tailor maid both verbal earthworm and pintocat as they told me sin said that the resources are free to use. Under the circumstance they become not free to use I will immediately remove my mod if asked.

Also the screenshots where the armour is darker feature the cabal retexture which I recommend with the utmost sincerity.
Perhaps one day I may make a custom texture to make the armour look more worn and well survivalish.

Bear in mind this is my first mod EVER so even if it's dogshit and a monkey could do better smashing a keyboard with a coconut please try and be kind and constructive in your criticism. It's just nice to finally release something to give back to the community for all the mods (If anyone even likes this mod that is)!

If anyone wants to use my assets that's fine as mine are just edits of free assets so it would be wrong to stop anyone but I would like credit if you use my file in any way shape or form. Now for that shameless promoting part (I never thought I'd be doing that).

Alright guys enjoy! Endorse if you liked it and most importantly leave a comment!
























The Cave in question is Bloodborne cave.