While I was going through the process of painting the interior of the lower hull, I began preparing the upper hull. One interesting difference between this kit and the prior one is that although both kits allow you to customise the rear port decking, by either leaving the moulded-in tools and adding the fire extinguisher, or removing the tools and adding either several jerry cans or some sort of large container, only this kit actually documents the fact that the moulded tools must be removed to use the other options!

The earlier kit seemed to suggest (quite confusingly) that the fire extinguisher, the jerry cans and the container would all fit together -- an impossible feat of course; nor did the previous kit instructions mention anything about shaving/sanding anything away. It was of no concern to me in the previous build, since I wanted tools and extinguisher any way; but since I *do* want the jerry cans for this desert vehicle, out came the trusty knife and soon the moulded detail was gone. Most of the other external details (headlamps, etc.) were attached now, but the jerry cans and other bits will be added later.