BA1b 3D - Time Machine 2

The bell idea I thought was the most promising, so I decided to look more into how I could work a bell as a time machine. I want to at least design a character too, and if I don't have time to create a 3D model of them at least I'd have the design for the future. Me and my friend were throwing ideas around for our projects, and she mentioned that with the bell I could have movable parts that you twist to make a date/time etc to time travel to - similarly to the code feature on a padlock.

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I was thinking about there being different parts you turn for the hour. day, month and year you want to travel too, but the year one may be somewhat of a challenge as it would have to infinite amount of numbers. Below some sketches and ideas I wrote down to get a clearer idea of what I was thinking of making and how the bell would work.

I thought that maybe ringing the bell rather than having a fourth turning part would work better, and also I would be using the key part of a bell, the ringing, for the years which are important.  I was also thinking that each of the three parts would have a different set of numbers. One would have Roman Numerals, one would have English numbers and one would have Kanji numbers, also looking at how I could make it obvious in the bells design which numbers you are selecting, and how the character that's connected to the bell would look. I thought that maybe if the bell only worked with the character, then the character would be part of the bell and time travelling process in a very large way.