Too Much Garlic wrote:
Though sanitized, the DP DLX dome is a more accurately shaped dome than the GH style domes. Once you know how the originals really look, you'll be able to spot the GH style domes more easily and they will seem wrong. Those who still swears to GH style domes being accurate simply don't have access to or knowledge enough about the real and accurate domes.
Couple that with years and years of helmets with GH style domes, and people getting familiarized with that look. I thought as you did regarding the SPFX once... but... getting access to the more accurate stuff and the GH features stand out like a sore thumb and the SPFX has those tells.
But still, deciding to go a new route with a new dome is still a good choice, imo.
This argument goes back a long time. At one point I remember you trying to point out the problems with the GH dome shape with respect to the original dome. I remember your comparisons distinctly. And at the time I didn't have an authentic dome to compare against, so I let it go.
But now I do, so I had a second look at those old arguments.
The only things different about the GH dome apart from it being cleaned up extensively are the following:
1. Left flaring curve over the eye is a sharper curve than the original, and it seems to arise from the left eyebrow being sanded back on that side quite a bit, probably to make it symmetrical with the right side. Plus that left flaring is pushed slightly inward.
2. Right eyebrow is made symmetrical to the left.
3. Front eyebrow edges were trimmed back as well and smoothed out.
4. The dome crown on the left side is more square in front view probably because that side was built up slightly to make it more symmetrical, that is just how it came out of the mold.
5. Widow's peak indentation reworked into a Y-shape.
6. Center ridge trimmed/sanded so that the curvature and thickness is different.
7. Left side bottom flaring edge trimmed back to make it symmetrical with the right.
8. From the right side the rear flaring slope near the center ridge is steeper, but that is because the crown sticks out more at the transition between the crown and the flaring.
And that's it. Everything else about the shape of the GH is pretty much the same as an authentic ANH helmet. Yes it is cleaned up a lot and the eyebrows made to be symmetrical. But the shape of the original has been retained.
And to say a DP Deluxe is more accurate in shape as an ANH helmet than the GH is just simply untrue. The DP Deluxe is ESB-shaped and even more smoothed out than the GH. For anyone to say something like that makes me wonder if they know anything about domes.
And SPFX modified his dome to try and correct what people thought were flaws on the GH and in the process took it even further away from being like the original.
And when the eFX helmets come out anyone can prove me wrong, but I've already done the comparison with something far more accurate than an eFX dome. But I think people will be surprised how similar they actually are.
Here is a comparison I did back in March of 2006...and we only had the DJ ANH back then to compare with.
So the bottom line is you say the GH ANH dome is so wrong and inaccurate....no it is just cleaned up and made symmetrical on the eyebrows but the overall shape is still there, surprisingly.