MUSLCAH, good chance a shop is going to end up finishing the job. Most likely I'm going to be relocating in the next 18 months. I need to get it trimmed and glass in so I can reassemble a reasonable amount of it, get it mobile, on a trailer and down to TN. Down there I will either have the time, facilities and/or money to do it properly or have it done for me. At this point I'm kinda in a race to get it mostly in one running piece.
I plan on getting a nice gun anyway since I've always wanted one, and if I do end up doing the work myself it will come in handy. A lot of my final decision will be based on how things turn out when I trim it and shoot a spare test fender I have. It's not going to be a show car no matter who does it
But yes, you are correct that I basically don't have the time to do it "right" up here, and by the time I get moved I'm probably going to be more likely to pay someone else to do the rest as I'll be busy doing other things.