The process is pretty straight forward
1. Trim the included 4x5 metal plates to fit your camera. In my case it was the 4x5 film holders. I trimmed about 10mm off of one edge and clipped a corner to simulate an actual piece of cut sheet film. This helped me remember to use a single side for the emulsion coating.
2. Warm the emulsion gel in hot water until it become fluid enough to pour and spread onto the metal plates.
*** Start steps that need to be in darkroom with safelight ***
3. Pour and spread the emulsion onto your metal plates.
4. Dry the plates in a completely dark place for about 24 hours. I used a military ammo can since it was the only light tight box I could find.
5. Put the plates in the film holder
*** End steps that need to be in darkroom with safelight ***
When the emulsion was dry and the film holders where ready to go it was just a matter of finding a suitable subject and exposing as normal except for using a blue filter in front of the light meter. Seems the emulsion is only sensitive to blue light. Once exposed you go back into the darkroom with a safelight and process according to the directions. This step is pretty simple, even I was able to do it without too much trouble.
My first try resulted in images that I think are over exposed. I rated the emulsion at ISO 1.6 and probably should have been ISO 3. I have some more plates drying that I will test out this weekend.
Here are two scans of my best photos from the first batch.


Any comments or suggestions about this process would be much appreciated!