Changing Weapons in Half-Life... Thread

Alright I am sick of the normal weapon models and I have replacement models already downloaded. I need to know what folder to put the models in and also the sounds. I have already asked this question on another forum and people said "just put them in the c:SIERRA/whatever folder but you see the original HL weapons are in "C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\events" and they are .sc format. The models I want to enter are in .mdl format.

Can someone help me please?

OK, if you wanna replace the shotgun with a single-barreled one. go to valve, then models and, depending on which it is (p,v or w) call it v_shotgun (or p w whatever) play HL enjoy!

What are some things you need to know to create a hl wepons mod

The events folder is useless and totally unneccessary.
Unfortunately PAKs override so you'll have to make a mod folder containing these weapons, put the .mdl's in the models folder of that new mod. Not that i mean that you're creating a mod though but that's the only way to do it