Well my order from Ray finally arrived. As you might know my first thing was wanting to finally do a LEDtriks style set up and fully agree the rigid strips are the way to go. Not to mention you can make a pretty big one if you like (64 tall max for a SS Hub).
I decided to go smaller for now and do 20 which appears will be a nice style scrolling display.
One thing that surprised me is the Rigid Strips come with the male and female connectors already attached, so connecting them together (max of 4 per SSC) will be easy.
Enough of the blah blah here are some pics: