covering it up won't work.
applying armor wouldn't make sense
that's not what happened to the movie and
well thats the way it is in the movie
I thought you wanted to be true to the movie.
Anyway, if we REALLY have to do this:
I've always thought of rebuilding the Blockhead with all the components: think of what happens when you use botevents and unhidenode ALL, you see all possible nodes.
Well, think of using the original model with all the different nodes but giving it different animations.