BOREALIS - Landscape Retexture

Greetings, fellow wastelanders!  I've been hunting and fishing in these parts for years.  Out in the wilderness I discovered another texture overhaul for you to sink your eyballs into.  Where BADLANDS stripped the forest for a haphazardly cobbled-together retro-weird desertscape, BOREALIS is all about imbuing the fourth Fallout's canonical New England locale with a little more vitality, verve, and verisimilitude.

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?

Bethesda's artists did a phenomenal job breathing life into the built environment, but I always felt like the Wasteland was a missed opportunity.  There isn't much of the character of the landscape of New England about the 'Wealth, and while internal canon requires a blasted expanse I still feel like more could have been done with it. Real-life Eastern Massachusetts alternates between lush coniferous woods, centuries old towns in clapboard and gambrel roof, scrappy rural pasturage, rugged coastline, and devastated urban zones of gentrified blight.  What might happen if you took an image of that landscape and applied a little bit of science-fiction mental magic to it?

One of the more vivid pop-science (fiction) suppositions about a nuclear war is the incursion of a "nuclear winter," a brief ice age caused by the massive quantities of dirt and people parts and other stuff hurled into the upper atmosphere by nuclear explosions.  This massive cloud of jetsam would, in theory, increase local albedo and prevent sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface long enough to substantially drop the temperature.  Darkness, dust, and rad-snow for years.  In that time great drifts of polluted snow might accumulate, compacting over the years into a glacial rime.  The great glaciers once again strode down from the high places of North America, imprisioning within their icy vault the dread radioactive menace.  But all Ice Ages must eventually reach their interglacial.  Now the ice has begun to melt, releasing atomic monsters of a forgotten age onto an unsuspecting world...

Much more compelling than "there were bombs and everything turned brown."

In this version of the Fallout 'verse the same nuclear ice age that made FROST so damn hard waxed, and now, 200 years later, is finally on the wane.  The vast Glowing Glacier that formed over the northern Appalachians and reached as far as Walpole is in retreat.  As it melts, the surrounding countryside has revegetated in successive waves of tundra and boreal forest.  Great conifer woods once again blanket New England, the sussurus of wind in the fir boughs and the chatter of feral pigeons only occasionally interrupted by the bark of distant gunfire echoing off the decaying city to the east...

Initially this was conceived as yet another wintertime retexture- but that's been done several times before by other far more skilled modders.  (Check out Icepick, Win