Freehand Armour - BHUNP - 3BA - HIMBO - SMP - 4K-2K
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.6% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #186 of 244 Armour mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
This mod adds four pieces of armor and one piece of clothing to the game. You can smith these items with the Advanced Armors perk and find them where steel armor might appear.
The pieces added by this mod are:
-Freehand Cuirass
-Freehand Gauntlets
-Freehand Greaves
-Freehand Armet
-Freehand Scarf
The strings, flask, and skirt have enabled SMP. If you do not want to use SMP, use any of the conversions supplied on this page to build the meshes for the outfit without SMP-enabled physics, instead of deleting the .xml file. By default, the mod ships with SMP.
This mod comes with 2k cuirass textures by default with an optional download for 4k textures. Gauntlets, Helmet, Scarf and Greaves textures are half-size. (1k main, 2k in the high res file)
This armor is called the freehand armor because I did not make a sketch or even started with a single idea, i just went and drew the first thing that came to mind (in blender using the annotation tool lol) and sculpted that. One might find a resemblance to one Dark Souls outfit: this is purely incidental.
Installation note:
When installing, be sure to download a conversion for the appropriate body and build the meshes. The meshes the mod comes with are just bodyslide output files, so any changes introduced by my updating of the conversions in the optional files will not carry forward. This means rebuilding meshes in bodyslide is a soft requirement!
If you want to interact with me directly, or follow my creative process, or even just wanna be on top of whatever I'm working on next, feel free to join my discord server! . You can also support me on ko-fi!
Enjoy, everybody!
Tools used:
Substance Painter
Outfit Studio
Adds a set of heavy armor for Skyrim, themed for lone wanderers and nomads. Supports BHUNP, 3BA, HIMBO, and SMP physics, with 4K-2K textures. Popular with 370 endorsements and 61,555 downloads, last updated March 2026.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Solid community traction with 370 endorsements and over 61k downloads.
- Body type support covers both male and female, plus physics for that extra flair.
- Active development—last updated March 2026, so it's fresh.
⚠️ Cons
- No screenshots or in-game previews in the description, so you're flying blind on looks.
- SMP physics can be a performance hog on lower-end rigs.
- Heavy armor might not fit every playstyle—if you're a stealth archer, this is dead weight.
For Skyrim players who want a rugged, wanderer-style heavy armor with modern body support and physics. If you're a murderhobo or lone wolf character, this fits the vibe. Skip if you prefer light armor or don't care about SMP jiggle.
💡 Beginner Tips
- If you're using a mod manager like Vortex or MO2, just download and install—no manual file placement needed.
- For SMP physics to work, make sure you have the required physics framework (like CBPC or FSMP) installed, even if not listed here.
- Check the mod's file section for optional 2K textures if you're worried about performance.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- OperatorCactus
- Version
- 1.3
- Downloads
- 61,555
- Endorsements
- 370
- Category
- Armour
- Created
- 5/8/2025
- Updated
- 3/3/2026
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