I was really looking forward to finding the unique sniper rifle as I normally play a stealth/guns type character but when I finally found it the other day I was rather disappointed with the rather out of place desert camo. Not out of place for the area it's being used, rather out of place when it's being used with chinese stealth armour or any armour available really. Having a camo gun when you're wearing a big suit of shiny silver armour looks a bit ridiculous.

Anyone fancy retextureing the Gobi to bring it's looks more in line with that of the Ratslayer, as in clean, untarnished and in dark colours? Preferably keeping it compatible with http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35009

Did you try overwriting the texture with that of a normal sniper? I know it's not what you had in mind but it's a start. Don't have any texturing skills, sorry.

Normal Sniper has a different mesh so I'm pretty sure it'd look rather wonky if I just slapped the texture on top. The normal sniper has a hollow metal frame style stock while the Gobi's is solid wood. I suppose I could just over write the mesh as well but then having look exactly like a normal sniper isn't really any less disappointing to me than the weird camo texture so there's not really much point.

I might take a crack at this. I hate the texture too, thought I love the rifle itself. This could be my first mod in a long time, so bear with me.

Just stealing the Ratslayers texture and editing to fit the Gobi's model would be fine. Or just your standard http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/imgs/barrett-m107.jpg if you're going to attempt it from scratch.