Just what is this helmet? PIC HEAVY

I've only seen one DP Deluxe in person and it was quite a long time ago, so it was just the only explanation I could come up with.

Maybe someone on here still has one... I think one of the threads was by MaridBoba... I know he's still around.

Art Andrews said:

I am not sure I can correct you as there were some nastiness molded in but I know on different DP Deluxe helmets I have seen different scratch patterns and wildly different paint patterns. I don't think the scratches were all the same from helmet to helmet.

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Ah... Okay... Well, here is why I said that... Did I read this wrong? Did they just cut some of the damage in manually on these? I can't find the other thread, but some guy was trying to identify an ebay bucket, and it was the consensus that it was a deluxe recast, because a few people had identical scratches on theirs.

Jeeze, now I'm hoping that I didn't mistake what I read... lol... I hate being wrong. =P

Tyler Durden said:

All ones I have seen have had premade scratches.

Mine is a LE #75, and I have seen ones well into the hundreds with the premade scratches. I believe they all came with the scratches...but I can't be a hundred percent sure.

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Also, look what else came from the same thread... lol...

FettsBounty said:

Did the '96 helmets have premade scratches as well? Mine does, and I've been told mine may be some sort of rare variation.

-Austin
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Is it possible that people with that 96 helmet are just mistaking a bad texture for recast damage? Couldn't it just as easily be a bad batch of vinyl? How are the stamp and ears accounted for?

I'm far from being an expert, just a guy recalling stuff that he read. So please don't think I'm trying to spread gospel or anything... Just trying to figure it out as well. I'm a big fan of DP95/96's, had alot of the higher end helmets, but I always keep my eye out for DP's. For some reason, I just really like them.

Wouldn't bad vinyl just look wrinkled or gloppy instead of like it is?
This helmet has multi-levels of texture, two mostly but three in some places. I would think that of it were a bad pour it would have to have been done in more than one stage kind of like a skin coat first and then backup layers after that. Mold "damage" seems unlikely to me but...

If ANYONE else has a helmet like this can you post pics to see if it's comparable?
I'd even be willing to send it to Art or something to look at if he'd be up for it because I REALLY want to know what the heck this thing is.

The thing that makes me think that its a defect is the consistancy of the texture... It looks like its all over the helmet, including the visor.

Bad pull for shore they used metal mold with hot pour vynil to make these so if the mold wasnt cleaned properly and looking at red eye plastics mold you can see how this
could happen the vizor is the give away that its not texture from a helmet that was molded