Well MR Sparky I Whant to see you rigg a figure that is composed of Props sticked together and not a single mesh !! It is not a challange the provided modell is rather a joke , it is as if you would take different props set em together with penetrating parts then bone such a figure.

 

you mean like a car, room, etc? we do that all the time..... standard for many models. eg a chest of drawers. model the drawers and the cabinet, rig them as the cabinet as the "body" of the figure and the drawers as the limbs...