RS sell 1.27mm pitch matrix board from Roth electronics which are correct pitch for SOIC and SOT23 packages as well as 0805 sized parts. . I’ve done a lot of prototyping with that recently. Tools are weller TCP iron with 1.6mm chisel, xacto scalpel, flux pen, some expensive tweezers which are non magnetic.
You can see one of my slightly criminal early attempts here:
Have used kynar and snipped resistor leads for wiring.
Works nicely even if it looks like crap. Best things are it is cheap and doesn’t take as much space!
I’ve ordered PCBs recently as it’s not worth spending the time prototyping when simulation and confidence are available. kicad on the EDA front and oshpark boards are good.
I’d tou don’t fancy that or waiting for China, bitsbox sell adapters individually:
https://www.bitsbox.co.uk/index.php?...&cPath=255_313