To form the dolls house scale tapers from wax, heat your wax in a container in a water bath (double boiler) until it melts. Turn off the heat and carefully (without burning yourself or spilling the wax) remove the wax container to a counter prepared with a disposable covering of newspaper, card or cardboard (to absorb wax drips).
Hold the end of your thread in tweezers so that the bead pulls the thread tight, and dip the bead and thread into your container of melted wax. You may have to jiggle the bead at first to remove any air bubbles that cause it to float. Dip the thread wick as far into the wax as you can, then remove it from the wax with a smooth motion to keep drips from forming, and hold it in the tweezers until you see the wax has cooled on the wick.
Allow your wax to cool to the point where you can start to see wax glazing over or hardening just on the outside edges of the container. Dip your prepared wick into the wax with a smooth gradual motion, and pull it out of the wax the same way. If the wax is the right temperature, a coating should build on the wick. If you are pulling it carefully out of the wax, it shouldn't have noticeable bumps or lumps on the wick. If everything is smooth, let the wax cool slightly, still hanging from the thread you are holding with the tweezers, and when it starts to cool dip it again. Do this until you have a taper the right length and thickness for your scale candle.
If things are not working right and you get lumps, or too much wax sticks on your last dipping run, heat your wax in the water bath and try again. You can dip your bad candle back into the hot wax to melt off the problems and start again. It takes a bit of experience to work out when the wax is the right temperature for dipping such tiny candles.
If your candle is fine for at least as long as you need it, you can trim any sections with lumps away when the candle is cool. If your candle is only slightly deformed, you may be able to gently press and roll it to shape on a flat surface, using another flat surface (the back of a ruler or a poly clay blade?) as the wax cools. This only works when you are adding very thin layers of wax to the taper. If you add a thicker wax layer at one time then try to roll your candle to press it into shape, the uncooled wax nearest the wick may ooze out between the layers and deform your candle.
