Thanks fellers. The upside of the delay is that my tools, knowledge, and skill arsenals are expanding in the meantime ...no small thanks to the wealth of knowledge shared by the amazing people on this forum. And of course good ol YouTube. For example -->
http://www.youtube.com/user/covellron
I've also had time to cook up more non-standard mod plans
DriftBeam is in the final push now. Hang in there