I'm so glad the project came to fruition! I too jumped the gun with the boards (sorry :/) but here's mine in purple.
SOJ DRAM seems to be the way to go. Also made some adapters without needing to trim/overlap components and leads.
This now has to sit and wait until I finish my front RAM upgrade project (my A1000 is stock 256KB so I'm quite sure from the manual this can't work without it) and an adapter board to use an A500+ Agnus (as found on GitHub, but I need a version with SMT plug).
I'm already thinking about a custom CPLD/RGBToHDMI for the video expansion port to save on a redundant card edge adapter.