Nice to hear. I purchased the cargo truck with the add-on armor as a base kit for the PSM HEMMT wrecker conversion. The new tires are a huge upgrade to the split plastic ones in the original cargo version.

I've had the Revell Germany boxing of the 1/35 M977 bouncing around in my stash/partially completed pile for ~18 years. Every 5 years or so I pull it out to finish and usually get stalled shortly after cracking the box. The kit just plain sucks, even for it's time. I'd never buy another boxing of the Italeri sprues again.

Out of a whim, I picked up the DEF XL resin wheel set and now I'm going to push on through the pain to see it done....finally. I even stole an extra pair of MLRS rocket pods from one of my Dragon kits, so it will have a quad stack in the back.

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I've had the Revell Germany boxing of the 1/35 M977 bouncing around in my stash/partially completed pile for ~18 years. Every 5 years or so I pull it out to finish and usually get stalled shortly after cracking the box. The kit just plain sucks, even for it's time. I'd never buy another boxing of the Italeri sprues again.

Out of a whim, I picked up the DEF XL resin wheel set and now I'm going to push on through the pain to see it done....finally. I even stole an extra pair of MLRS rocket pods from one of my Dragon kits, so it will have a quad stack in the back.

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What's so bad about it? Seriously, I have no idea about those kits, the refueller looks tempting though... but really don't want to jump in on a pain to build and rather be warned in advance

I think this review by Cookie Sewell is a fair summary:
http://misc.kitreview.com/armourreviews/m978tankerreviewcs_1.htm

Here is a discussion thread / build log:
http://www.kiwimodeller.com/~kmodel/index.php/forum/operation-desert-storm-25th-anniversary/31044-italeri-1-35-m978-u-s-heavy-fuel-tanker-finished

I would wait and hope that Trumpeter decides to cash in on their HEMTT-chassis by doing more variants. The second option is to kitbash. As the last and final choice I would build the Italeri kit that has been lurking in my stash since the last time they were on the market, and replace the kit wheels with resin wheels of course.
/ Robin