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Built For Speed Build Journal: Hot N Fresh By Josh Paufler
As most of you know, I love building weird stuff. So, when the Pinks Delivery Race popped up on my radar over at Flat Rabbit, I had to jump on it. I delivered pizzas when I was a kid in my old beat up station wagon. To this day, it was one of my favorite jobs and my all-time favorite car. I wanted to replicate that while adding a twist of apocalyptic flare to fit in barside at Pinks Pizza in New Westrock. I decided to build a mobile brick oven pizza delivery vehicle. I started with my roots in pizza industry, a station wagon, generously donated by Paul Gruell of Mayfield 41. From there, it was just a matter of building the oven. I was originally going to use HO scale bricks from a train diorama set but the thought of gluing each brick into place made me dizzy. I looked up
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pictures and videos on how to build a real brick oven and stubbled upon an adobe oven, made from clay. I figured that would be my best bet. From there I went to my trusty Milliput, a two-part epoxy putty that air dries to hard-as-rock. The material is very easily molded and, with a wet finger, easily smoothed. Once I had the structure of the oven roughed out, I put it on the scale, only to find that it was overweight by about 10g. I wanted to add weight to the floor of the wagon to counterbalance the oven so I trimmed about 20g off the oven and re-sculpted it into the final form. What’s nice about Milliput is that it’s stiff enough to mold but you also have lots of working time. After I had the form I wanted and it was at the correct weight, I carved the mortar lines into the brick using the pointed end of a tweezers. After letting it dry for about a day, I went in with some acrylic paints and
detailed the oven. Spraying it all with a matte finish gave the bricks a nice sealed look like what I’d seen in my research pictures. Recently, I found a great little product for making oily looking parts on cars. It’s an acrylic chalkboard paint. I found it at the dollar store with the intention of building a car you could write on and erase. After trying it out on the wagon, I loved the results. I
