How do you turn a re-skin into a seperate model?

[Aaro26]

I've just been on a re-skinning binge, I'm trying to make my own Personal model.

My Question is How can you make a re-skinned model into a seperate model? (Full details please)

Is it something in the lines of copying one model and all those funky files that follow, then renaming them then editing the .vmt's line where it normally says "$basetexture" "models/*folder name*/*Model name*" to ""$basetexture" "models/*New folder name*/*new model name*"
I'm Guessing there is more to it, so please do tell!

[Silver Spirit]

Hex the model and use the names you hex in the model as the new names for your VMT files. (Look up how to hex theres lots of tutorials in this forum and around).

[Aaro26]

Thank you!