Best way to make a recolor of a unit, without changing the original mode?

[Kaige]

So I want to make a unit that is just a recolor of the Copper Golem for a summon. However, the modding guide pdf isn't terribly useful for this since the two paths it goes down are

1. Editing the existing content, which I do not want to do, since I do not want to change the appearance of the copper golem.
2. Creating new content, which I do not want to do, I just want to use a reskinned copper golem

The problem is whenever I copy the clb for the copper golem "MateriumAnimatedArmor_Skin.clb", it breaks almost all of the references and I can't seem to fix them without the original meshes. Am I missing something? Thanks for any help on the issue.

 

[Sidoniss]

How are you copying the .clb?

 

[Kaige]

I'm opening it in the resource editor, then using save as to change the name and place it in my mod at the appropriate directory