Hi, My name is Sid and i have a DPD #151. Actually i had 2 DPD but i sold one some years back.
I held on to this DP because of the extremely nice condition and very little warping that
most other DPD helmets suffer from.. I am sorry for the poor quality of this picture i will try
to take more this week. I will also show pictures of the other DPD helmet i once owned so you
can see the differences..
If memory serves me i ordered my first DP from an add in Galaxy Trader. Some months later
I received it and was a bit disappointed with the warping so I contacted Don Post and after
overcoming some obstacles finally got a chance to talk to someone there about these problems..
I had a list of questions to ask them, just like a good Star Wars Nerd would
and here is
what they told me....
I had asked them why my helmet was warped and sagging and they told me they were
receiving a lot of the same questions from other concerned owners and thought that the master
helmet had the same issues but under further examination of the many molds they made for
the production, found that a few of the molds were faulty leaving many of the production
helmets with a low, to moderate, to extreme warping problem.. I asked if they could tell me
if they knew what #rd helmets were affected and they told me it varied throughout the
production line, some good and some bad. Basically a flip of the coin....
I have heard people in the past say the earlier DPD helmets had less warping but as all of you
can see from the pictures in this thread, that is not the case at all. I also asked if the helmets
had any other changes throughout the production and they told me the only thing they felt it
necessary to change was the Lenses because of the poor visibility they were experiencing
with the initial batches.... I for one can verify that my earlier #151 had Crap lenses compare
to the near perfect lenses in my higher numbered DPD i sold....
Here is my current DPD.. I will upload another picture with more detail, but you can see
already how the neck has very little if not any flare at all, I also noticed that my earlier
DP has more surface detail unlike my higher #rd DP almost as if they were cleaned up more
as the production went on.....