I made some progress with whatever it is I’m doing, at least I seem to remember some lark like that.
And I love comics/graphic novels, NOT the super hero crap, but real well inked and coloured stuff. What puts me off are feet. Not a single one of even the very best inkers and pencillers can do realistic feet. Not. A. Single. One.
And in my dishevelled wee heid center points are a watch face’s feet.
And I simply have no clue - been ogling watch feet … center points, sorry, for the last two weeks. Seen some pretty cool stuff in the fictional style, but if it comes to “realism” there’s nothing that said “BAM! I’m the center point you want!”.
Problem is, I wager, that I don’t have the foggiest about what such a “center point” really is in real life. Is it a screw that keeps the hands from falling apart? Is it some sort of crank shaft that drives the buggers? Is it a bolt nut that keeps the screw from falling off behind the watch face?
Try googling the stuff - you find nothing serious, just click bait.
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I bought a DIY watch kit, which I found rather difficult to build. Working on such miniature stuff is not my thing…
But on that particular watch, the hands are just forced onto the center shaft. So no screws or anything.
The video illustrates that.
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Mechanically, the center of a watch is where the hand-setting arbors poke through the dial. These arbors are small rotating shafts that stem from the movement, and each one controls a hand — hour, minute, second (and more in complications). Here is a simple one I have used (with light and shadow included), but like hands, the possibilities are endless and it depends on the face/ dial.
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THanks for the vid. And SPECIAL thanks that it is a vid without any hand shaking/trembling. Makes me jittery watching someone with jittery hands.
Hm, I see. SO in this case the center point is just a top down view of concentric shafts.
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But I mostly use a screw or a rivet for a center point:
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Thanks for sharing this tiny bugger. Seems if I want to go this way, I’d need to enormously exaggerate the shaft sizes …
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Thanks! Yeah, got some of those, too (I think I may have posted them in “Resources”. Or not, because I bought them from Adobe Stock, and they’re copyrighted 
They don’t really scale well in my case
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No worries! It depends - how chunky your hands are and whether you want realism (mine lines up pretty closely with the one in the video) or more of a graphic/ artistic vibe. You can blow it up a bit before it starts to look wrong. Often a dark circle with a bit of lighting looks great on thicker hands.
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The community made it possible again - a fitting center point for a brainwrecker:
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I use a nice Ball rendred Chrome or renderd Matt . I do not let them rotate as I like it to show 3/4 lighting as per Facer Creator . I will post them later . I actually think a screw head is a good Joke as it woul never be that . Well may be if it was an anticlock Thread with a very light Torgue setting . 
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I think those hands would likely start as rings that wrap around a centre pivot, or the centre point would be bigger (or a ball) and gold - A small silver centre point definitely looks wrong haha
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I would use a screw, the one below, resize to 8.5 width and height and tint it with the yellow in your watch face:
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Ha! Great ideas! Problem I see is that on MY watch (OnePlus 2) it just drowns Maybe this screw like in the snapshot (thanks! 
), but 200% and with a washer underneath of a decent size - bacsue the hands are definitely triangular in shape, so nobody will belife a flat screw on top of them ? So one notices the effort we’re making here? But this already looks like day instead of grisly night. You’re absolutely fabulous, guys. Is it okay to mention the group effort in the description, by the way? How do you do this if someone helps you with a crucial thing?
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As you wish. Not a must from my side.
But in my case, if I am inspired my a Creator or using their hands, I’ll mention that and link to their profile.
I think that is fair.
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I think the washer is a good idea. I try to do the same as Tom, but no pressure either way really 
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I like the last one above - bigger is better! Small ones just look like they are part of the hand. Bigger ones also allow you to tweak the hand (wider longer etc) if you need to
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Wekk, this is quite a collection you got in this thread - THANKS!!! I’ll dive in and try to be worthy of it 
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These resources are Posted for one and all . I see your efforts have sparked a resources topic as well . That makes it easier for people who come to look for bits for their Projects . I have made a few faces with gifts and thy are quite popular on Facer .
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