Bringing this back from the dead, but I figured I should comment the solution that worked for me in case others find this. TL;DR - the cause I found for this mesh error was because I skipped the mod "32 revolver Millenia replacer" in the STEP guide. Once I installed that as instructed by the guide, the red exclamation box went away. -------------------- I just finished going through the STEP guide and found the same issue when I came across Sara Silver in Springvale and Jenny Stahl in Megaton (and I'm sure others too, but they are the only ones I noticed before fixing). The red box with an exclamation point appears when there's a missing mesh, not texture, as others have said. Like SpudBug, I found out that it was isolated to the .32 pistol that both of them had in their inventory after killing them and taking it. Looking over the mods I installed from the STEP guide, I installed some of the individual weapon mods and the last mod from the section "Millenia's Weapon Retextures" (Millenia's Weapons for FWE), but I did not install the .32 pistol mod, 32 revolver Millenia replacer, because I figured I wouldn't use this weapon anyways. But now seeing that the description of Millenia's Weapons for FWE says that it covers the .32 revolver reskin mod, I installed the ".32 revolver Millenia replacer" mod -- following the STEP guide to also get the FNV mod and make the file tree changes -- and the exclamation marks are no more.