Hi mwestaph,
I am also new here but I believe I can take a crack at your image.
Snapins I feel are great, they automatically install after your machine is imaged. The other tool you would want to consider here are the “Groups” feature. While this isn’t a traditional group where new hosts inherit group settings, its a good way to apply settings on mass.
Here is my basic setup:
I have 2 images and 6 groups. I then onboard all of the client machines / hosts and assign them to the appropriate group. In the group setup, I then choose the correct image and snapins for that group. This applies these settings to all associated hosts (ie. All current hosts that are associated with this groups now have the same settings.)
The only downside currently is if you need to assign a new host machine to this group, you need to re-apply the image and snapin settings for the group to apply it appropriately to this machine.
Let me know if this helps and if there is anyone more experienced out there feel free to tell me if I am wrong.