Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Fantasy Lights Sculpture

Every year, in cooperation with Pierce County Parks & Recreation, Clover Park Technical College develops a lighted sculpture for the annual Fantasy Lights at Spanaway Park display. This year Clover Park Technical College students developed a Model-T Ford sculpture. Mechanical Engineering Design student Mike Myers created the original design, students in the Welding Technology Program fabricated the sculpture and it's supporting structure, and other students in the Automotive Program painted the completed structure.

Mike used AutoCAD to create the design on the right from a photo of an actual Model-T Ford. He plotted the design full size for use as a template. Using rebar and metal tubing, the Welding Technology students fabricated the Model-T sculpture, laying their pieces out on the plotted design.


Following fabrication, the Automotive Program painted the sculpture prior to delivery. Fantasy Lights features the Model-T sculpture as one of its brand new displays for 2008.

Click HERE for more information on attending the 2008 Fantasy Lights at Spanaway Park!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, I saw Mike's Model T at Fantasy Lights last Sat. nite. WOW...it really looks neat. It is very large, and outlined in green lights. It is mounted above the ground and the perspective view almost makes it seem to be moving towards you. Nice job to Mike and the Mechanics...or was that a band?!

Anonymous said...

WOW what a bunch of spoiled students, I never had toys to play with when I struggled through physics and statics....Everything seem to be coming togather just as you dreamed Dorene, it all looks great and its do to you...

Steve

PS I will drop in, in the near future to viset.