Incidentally the thing that looks like a clothes peg on the top LH corner of my base board in the second pic above is in fact.... a clothes peg... screwed down, with a length of 16awg wire (otherwise known as a cut down coat hanger) taped to the top and bent over at the end with a filed and flattened point. Its used for holding SMD devices against the board while they are soldered (Phil likes using SMD decoupling capacitors for on his boards)...
What a good idea. I was going to ask how you got on with the SMD bit. I'd heard that you had to glue them on first, which could be a problem if u accidently fry it whilst soldering.