I have become a real fan of the future floor polish. I find it the easiest method to apply silkspan I have found. I thin it with water to 75% floor polish, 25% water, use a foam brush to to apply a coat to the surface to be covered, then thouroughly wet the silkspan and lay it on the wing. It is easy to lift and stretch or to reposition as necessary to get all the wrinkles out an when it dries it dries tight. I then covered it with the nelson color, again using a foam brush. I found that that it shrinks up as good or better than nitrate dope. The nelson fills the silkspan where the floor polish does not. I did add the cross linker as the directions say you need to when using this product over open bays. It has no effect on how the paint applies or shrinks, as I understand it. I did spray several coats of nelson clear on. It is touchy in that if you don't hold the gun at the right distance it does not give you a wet look. All in all I like the product a lot. Unfortunately, the ME is no more. I took it out for its first flights last Saturday and it would tip over on the nose when we tried to launch it. I took it home and bent the gear forward about 1/2 inch and took it back out Sunday. I got it in the air and it looked absolutely great. Felt good on 60 foot lines, did good inside loops and squares. I got it upside down and the outboard wing was high. Got it back right side up and the engine leaned out at the end of the run and as it came around into the wind I had a catasrofic failure of some sort. I think I saw the outboard wing come up just before it went straight in from about 15 feet altitude. Either the outboard wing failed or the bellcrank mount failed. When I picked up the pieces the bellcrank was about 6 inches into the inboard wing. I will build another, with several modifications. It looked to good in the air not to try again.