Cloning Sheep

This Instructable describes how to clone a willing sheep. First of all you need a volunteer sheep with good intentions, who will not mind to be cloned and reproduced multiple times. In the case of the sheep that i chose to clone, he had a secret plan for world domination.

>> Sheep cloning project website

Step 1 Materials and Tools

- 1 Sheep volunteer
- 3D scanner
- 3D printer
- Mold casting material
- Plaster, gypsom or other casting materials
- Casting equipment: mold release spray, cups, sticks, newspaper....
- Good intentions

Comments

[freeza36]

Its Dolly!

[Xillra]

Where did you buy your liquid Polyurethane?

[Xillra]

And did you have to use a Catalyst?

[dscott4]

woah!

I would love to see it added to the 3D print group I have just started

http://www.instructables.com/group/3Dprint/

Thanks

[Dumchicken]

with those inverted bumps you can let the clone cure inside lego city :P

[supertoria12]

So cute! Sheep are my favorite animals. :3

[poofrabbit]

I love the use of legos for molding, very clever!

[slithien]

Only 1 question... What does this have to do with april fools day???

[Void Schism]

With the loop formed by the legs it might be a better idea to make a 3 part mould, this will allow the legs to be easily removed. As you can see in pic 4 in this step the legs are trapped inside a half of the mould.
It's also a good idea to add some keys at this stage to help align the mould parts.

oh, and pet hate:
The plural of lego is lego, just like the plural of sheep is sheep!
"Legos" is not a word!

[dragonsniper]

legos is a word

[boort]

Plusea

Hello, Nice 'ible! Can you tell me what 3d scanning setup are you using? looks different from David and Maker Scanner that I have seen in other 'ibles.

How easy is it to clean up and merge/stitch it's scans?

BoorT

[Plusea]

the scanner was a konica minolta. i think it's actually a pretty expensive setup that we have here at the lab, so it is nothing as available as milkscanning. i forgot the name of the software, but i might have documented more of it here: >> http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.09/people/hannah/week8.html

[boort]

Very cool projects. Thanks for the pointers

[Griboedov_Aleksandr_Sergeevich]

Future War of clone

[DELETED_jorgegunn]

ahh I love the way you wrote the instructions it was very entertaining i might not ever make a sheep clone but it was a blast to read about it

[SHIFT!]

Oh snap, that's awesome! I would've just used Mold Builder and simply painted over it, but I love 3D Printers and you can preserve the plush!

[Treasure Tabby]

Oo nice. I'd love something like this for personal use but I probably could not afford one of those 3D printers.

[ShadowJesus]

This is pretty neat.

[lord_kian]

I don't understand why this is a April's fools intructable?

[caitlinsdad]

Cool. Which 3D printer was used? I haven't seen the process done with supporting material and then etched away.

[Plusea]

It was printed on the Stratasys Dimension