You might find yourself a bit limited using only one strobe... most mono strobe lighting creates dramatic shadows.

Usually strobe setups are in three.... a key light, fill light, and background light

as far as the bees.... from what i've seen... people buying the B800's for in home/garage studio are winding them down to low settings... you can most likely get by with the 400's... but if ur spending the money anyways, why not buy some latitude?

the subject here is portable lighting... have you investigated the economical and almost as good hot shoe strobe lighting?

check out strobist.com if you haven't already...

good luck!