Character Controller mesh scaling with animations

Hi,

I'm new to Unity and seem to be struggling with something that's quite common... Mesh scales.

To get started with something other than the default character in 3rd person, I grabbed the free Ice Golem model from the assets store.

When it imports, It appears huge (approximately 50x too large). After a bit of Googling, it seems I need to set the model scale factor. Ok, no problem. After re-importing, the model seems about the right size.

The tutorial I'm following to swap my model for the stock one says I should delete the contents of 3rd Person Controller directory and replace them with the contents of my golem directory.

Unfortunately, since the model scale factor is applied against the golem directory itself, after I move the children, the model appears ok in the editor but when running is back to its original size. It does animate/move correctly, however.

As an alternative I tried moving the golem directory itself under the 3rd Person Controller. This seemed to work as the game now runs with the correct model scale and the model moves as desired but it no longer animates.

When done the 2nd way, I get a series of exceptions when running of the form...

 NullReferenceException
 ThirdPersonController.Update () (at Assets/Standard Assets/Character Controllers/Sources/Scripts/ThirdPersonController.js:329)

So my question is... How can I both scale and get animations?

Thanks