Creating chest (I know there's a lot)

Hi!

I'm creating different chests (Iron, Gold, etc). I did everything without animations (Like a barrels) And everything works fine, stores items, etc. Now I'm looking to take it one step further and make them look like the vanilla chest but with different colors.

I know the Vanilla chest is rendered in a TESR, so I'm not sure if I can use the original model in my MCreator project. I also downloaded a chest (looking as well creating a new one using blockbench) but not sure how the animation will work in this case.

As I said in my previous post, not afraid to program, just I'm a bit lost about the best way to go with MCreator.

I was also looking this repo which basically does what I want but for forge 1.18, but not sure if I can use any of that with MCreator.

¿Please, any advice? If I finally accomplish it I would like to post it here, because I think there's a lot of people lost in similar ways that I am right now >.<.

¡Thank you!