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Thank you both @Alexander H , @Chris Ellerby

Definitely want the best of both worlds so likely will cut the face off the rubber skinned head with the hotknife and attach it to a laptop plank. Sonething that is portable but can be attached to an easle or layed on a desk and can be stored in a tupperware when transporting. If I come up with something good, I will post.

I've seen vacuum-formed face shells used to store some pieces in the past, as well as pizza boxes (which you can pin to) or foam wig heads.

If you want a custom lightweight form that you can pin to, my suggestion would be to get a head/face mold and use a 2-part expanding foam.    You can pick the density that you like, but denser foam will deform less as you work, which might be ideal.   If you only want the face, you can tilt the mold so the face is down and limit how much foam you use to determine the thickness.

You could also trim down a foam wig head using a hot wire tool.

/Chris

You want something pinnable - would a cork board work?

But, my real breakthrough and learning experience was modifying my face with the prosthetic tapes. With the forehead, the tape pulled  BUT with the ears, I needed them to protrude because Nick's earlobe is slightly larger than mine and slightly more away from the skull.

I came up with a neat trick using nasal breathrite strips backwards, behind the ear:

I put one image into my facial comparison app and it came back at 95 percent which is a strong indicator that the computer thinks it is the same person in both pictures. 95 is an incredibly high likeness level. As a test, I placed two pictures of the actor into the app instead of one of me and one of him. I made sure they were not the same angle so it would have to see the difference. The number was lower at 93 percent likeness.

Ron/Nick on right and me on left:



And then two of Nick:

Here are my splitface comparisons to see which features still needed changed.

I purchased a faux mustache and trimmed it to the appropriate shape and then wet it and combed it to shape. I finished wirh a curling iron before applying the mustache with Pros-aide. I trimmed away the extra lace around the top, after taking the photo below.