I don’t know, seems like most of that isn’t necessary… not sure what all the appending and unifying and cloning is for – all you should have to do is select mesh on the rig and fit the rig to the original mesh I think.
visibility thing i guess i like the rig in front initially no mesh ghost easier too rough in the hands at top veiw this way ? and unify snaps the two together 
also if you import a model from another app and the size way off unify is your best freind !
love to give this a try, thank you!
This looks great! Can you post the process how to use the rig with multi subdivision model?
Got it working 
thx you
thnx again all who participate here !!! 
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Excellent! Thanks so much for rig and the explanation!!
