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

[Daniel Domingos]

Very good job.
It's amazing the work they can do, with some important tools at hand.
Combining the knowledge of 3D software, ease of ordering models made starting at 3D printing, I believe that this fosters creative and technological development.

Congratulations on your work.

Daniel Domingos

[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