I thought tonight would be a good time to teach myself skim plastering (onto plasterboard). So as to make the challenge a bit more interesting I thought I would start off on a nice easy project like a ceiling! (albeit a small one in a new shower room (about 3.5 sq m in total).
So as per various guides posted to this very forum in the past, I mixed up half a bucket of multi finish plaster, with a "whipped cream" consistency. Slapped it on the ceiling with a conventional metal float/trowel i.e, something like:
Then it occurred to me I have one of these poly floats, like:-