Honestly, on closer inspection, there is no way I will be able to solder it to a board. I'm just gonna buy the modules.

Well, my intelligence is suspect, and my experience is null. I bought nRF24L01+ and nRF905 IC's instead of modules. At least they're probably not fakes. Is there some way I can buy a PCB with everything on it but the IC? Could I buy a cheap module an pop off the IC, and put my IC's on? What should I do? It'd be a bit of a pain to construct the module from scratch.