The hull is completely inaccurate. The upper hull in front of the turret ring is identical to the M48A3 kit hull. This means that it is inaccurate. This also means that the position of the idler wheel and all other wheels in fact are wrong too... Because DML have not moved the idler forward, they had too extend the hull behind the turret ring to fit all the wheels - again wrong, as the actual engine deck should not be extended that way. The result is that the turret ring is too far forward on the hull - DML tried to compensate for this by changing the shape of the turret bottom part, so that the turret seats further to the rear on the ring than in should
DML have noticed that the final drive cover is different in M103 from that in M48, so they provided new parts and a small correction sheets for the instructions. Unfortunately they missed the whole point of that new final drive cover, i.e. the modified position of the sprocket wheel (lower and further back than in M48) and their new part looks different, but does not change the position of the sprocket... It is very noticeable, as on the real M103 the upper tracks run visibly slopes downward from the last return roller to the sprocket wheel top, while in DML kit it is horizontal - as in the M48...
The turret shape does not look right to me either. And if one can trust drawings in the Hunnicutt's "Firepower" book, the gun barrel is MUCH too short and too narrow.
So once again we have a kit that will look impressive and certainly look like M103 once built, but in fact is seriously inaccurate. So we have the T28 situation once again...
Some of the points illustrated below (the drawing is from the DML kit instructions, but I verified that it is based on the same CAD drawing that was made to tool the kit, as the dimensions match, so it can be used to represent the kit). And the photo shows the M103A2 of course, not A1.
