Hi Ralph, thank you,
I *BELEIVE* both products are similar. The best advice I can give is make sure your base is flat, and don't mess with the material after the first 5 or 10 minutes at the most. Add it to your base gradually, use a soft round brush to "push" the material up to objects that might rise above the surface of the water (rocks, bridge pilings etc), then add more material to fill the surrounding areas, I transfered some of the material from its bottle to a small plastic medicine cup. The material skins over on the surface, but you can't really tell it is happening, resist any urges to mess with it at this point. Put the base somewhere dust free to dry for 24 hours.
The water is really not that smooth in some areas as I had to spend too much time working it around the nooks and crannies of the vehicle, and the base was not compleately flat so I had to try to shim it up as the water dried to keep a consistent depth around the base. One other thing to watch for, the material will tend to creep up the edges of protrusions, I think you can see it around the inside edges of the base, one of the finished examples at the seminar was finished with Vallejo's still water and it exibited the same chacteristic. No one had a cure for releaving the surface tension of the product to eliminiate this. You can also increase the shine of the surface and protect it somewhat by brushing on a cote of Future after the water dries.....but it won't fix any major flaws......you can probably guess how I know this
Hope this helps,
Ernie
