@ Gramgoyle
Welcome to GUN Gramgoyle. If you're a newcomer to Fallout New Vegas Modding. You ought to checkout Gopher's channel, he's got some wonderful tutorials on how to mod Fallout New Vegas.
Here's the link to his channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1CSCMwaDubQ4rcYCpX40Eg
And here's the link to his Fallout New Vegas Tutorials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-3c1a9cLL8&list=PL0E5E8CA384409B11
These tutorials really helped me when I was new, and hopefully they'll be useful to you too!