make sure you have plenty of ventilation. don't use it in the house, she'll kill you. lol I undercoat with white first, and usually thin the stuff some everytime I use it, especially out in the cold garage. keep the level in the jar near the top, for easy dipping, and when ya dip the jig, pull it out real slow and most of the excess will stay in the bottle. stick it in the edge of a cardboard box nose down, and after about 30 secs. you'll notice a drip on the nose, take and dab this off on a scrap of something. you have to dab this drip off within 60 secs probably or the paint will have skinned over, making the head look bad when ya go to dab it. this paint takes a week or so to get nice and hard, and I like to clear coat it with seal coat, which is super hard and slick when dry, altho it lightens up a dark color because it's a little milky, just fine on chart. and white etc. tho.