Fabricating your own strip board is great because you get to control a lot of parameters. But I seem to have developed an affinity for these really cheap phenolic stripboards. So I use KiCad to do the placement and use the rats nest to show the best location of the parts for the best routing. If you do not yet do PCB routing, this may be a good way to start using KiCad.
The stripboard is a footprint where the connection pattern is drawn on Cmts User layer.
The placement looks like this
The result looks like this
Here is the bottom
3D image from KiCad
