I have the Paasche, or one just like it. It's great. I set mine on a piece of that rubber flooring you see in restaurant kitchens. I buy furnace filter and cut it up.
As for lighting that is key and it doesn't have it. But I have a 18" flourescent strip fixture thats ealed up in a case with a lens, kind of the cheapo type that's sold for under upper kitchen cabs.
The floor of the thing is just the length of my newspaper, which makes keeping the surface clean really easy.