When someone thinks of Hershey, PA, they probably think of the town’s legacy to chocolate lovers. However, Stoner Graphix (Hummelstown, PA) helped Milton Hershey High School boast a strong identity of its own. The shop rendered large its Spartan mascot with a 16 x 12-ft., 2-ft.-deep, EPS-foam sign.
After the shop devised the design using Delcam’s ArtCam 3-D software, the shop cut six blocks of expanded-polystyrene (EPS) foam, and then sanded them by hand before adding details with a hot knife. To support the sculpture and mount it to the building, Stoner Graphix constructed an aluminum, box-tubing frame and embedded the EPS sculpture over it.
After spraying the foam with a polyurea hardcoat to make it withstand exterior installation, the shop decorated it with Akzo Nobel’s Grip-Gard HF white primer and basecoat, with a satin-finish clearcoat for protection.