Using Unity's lovely Standard Assets, I've been able to create nice third person character controllers.
After small tweaks to the source code they now sync using Photon.

I am happy that the Old Man model also works wonderfully with the standard animations.

Next up

As I stated in the first post, now will be the time to get the actual digging and death mechanic working for the Old Man. Followed by the dig up mechanic of the soldier.