Got back a few days ago, and playing catch up at work. I also have spent the past 3 days restoring an old skipfield CV open reel videotape deck. Totally stoked that I was able to get it to work!
Although the blending worked rather well, there were enough improperly aligned frames that I think I'm not going to use it. I'll just choose scenes from each of the three captures and live with it (like I did for PG). It's still a slow process. And I still have to grab a few missing segments from another print. So we're still quite a ways away from the finished product.
But I will do the upscaled HD... THAT is worth it.