Toby, 

Perhaps the technique I have developed over the years will help you.  I
tried Wire Wrapping (WW) and found getting the multi color wires with
prestrip was a hassle. It was also annoying to have 3/4 or 1/2 in of
pins sticking out of board bottom - ie bent shaaorted pins, not easily
minaturized.  There are up WW front tool costs - and rememer to get a
hand unwrap tool.

What I do is to use a vectorboard with 0.10" grid with or without the
ground plane on top or individual solder pads per hole on bottom. This
is your choice sometimes Ground plane and solder pads are easier, less
noisy. The machined pin sockets can be used for DIPs and SOIC conveter
to DIP boards, or Caps resistors that fit into the macined pin opening,
other socket media also. A small diameter tool like a 0.3 mm (leads) of
a Pentel mechanical Pencil or a #40 drill bit butt mounted into a
fixture you can hold in your hand. The idea is to create a single loop
on one side with a prestip of 3/16 or 1/8 inch.  Solder this end to the
machined pin (usually can stack two more later) then draw the kynar
wire sleeve into the solder joint soas to insulate that end. At the
other end put the wire insulation down on the pad / pin and do a single
loop and solder then cut the kynar wire.

This technique although requiring practise and forthought on layout
provides a reliable shortest path connection with the least waste in
wire and can run at to 50MHz (ground planed vectorboard) and 20 MHz on
vectorboard. Once you get used to it I have found I can do this just as
fast as WWing and end up with a minaturized product that fits into the
smallest of plastic cases or whatnot.  Best to adapt this technique to
20 Square inches or less, messy beyound this.

The tips on Green/Black for Grounds, Red for +, yellow for -, white for
data relay help when looking at during the build or years later on
retrofits.  Since you are doing five - focus on the first on wire
routing then just visually duplicate including all component placement.
Watch your positive and negative routing.  Aa loop for Vcc works nicely
- with a dual loop for a digital and analog interface connected at only
one point. Ground loops with star point crossing work well on regular
vectorboard. Look carefully at you decoupling Caps (liberal is good)
and any Ferrites or Tees you may need.

I call it "micro WW", for lack of a better coined description.

Beyound 10 you will yearn to do a layout then a photographic positive
(or two thin foils on a reducing copier machine has done the trick for
me with 0.015" min traces) The POS-DEV photoresist method and the
ferric chloride etch is a possible step for "mass" hobby production. I
have seen hobbiest produce boards in the 65 cents per square inch
square per board range per 100. - FWIW

Eric Borcherding