My V9 passenger brake van has been languishing on my work bench waiting for me to paint it for far too long. I applied a coat of acid etch primer at least a year ago, but since then made little progress. The main stumbling block in motivation to finish it was the fact that for my modelling period the V9 didn’t exist! I thought when I bought the kit that a coach that was originally built for broad gauge and then converted to standard gauge in the 1890s would be perfectly acceptable for circa 1