Minns idea does work very well, I saw him give the same advice some time back, tried it and have used it since. There are few out there as good at making covering work as Minflyer is (I wish I was even just 25% as good at it as he is).

Unfortunately we don't always get to apply the covering ourselves in this age of ARF's so we don't necessarily have control over what is actually applied or how it is applied.