CANDLE WAX

Originally i would have used this material as a cast in a mold. I already had the mold ready but unfortunately didn't have the wax at my house. 

Tools
kitchen knife
plastic ruler

THE PROCESS HAD ITS PROS AND CONS...
The only way it was possible to create the house form was to carve from my mums candle. The candle i used was lime scented and cylindrical shaped. I didn't think that the fact it was cylindrical shaped would affect the process, however i soon found that i was wrong. 

1) The first step was to mark onto the face of the candle the 'area of cut'. i did this by positioning my ruler against the candle and scoring the surface at 8cm (the chosen dimensions for the house models). From this it was simply a case of removing the excess wax (unneeded). 
2)With the length sorted out i just needed to repeat the process for the other sizes of the roof and front/back elevations. 

THE MATERIAL
What i thought the candle would be made from turned out to be completely different. You see, i assumed the whole candle was made from pure 100% green wax. So i went into carving with the idea that it would be simple and easy to do. You can just see from the pictures below that the candle is in fact a mixture of hard and soft wax, i assume for the purposes of burning.

When carving from the candle, i found that 'chunks' were removed instead of small bits of wax. this meant that it was noticeably more difficult to carve my house model. This problem is apparent in the aesthetics of my house as you can see...
       
        1) the roof is slanted
        2) the base isn't flat
If i was to make a wax house next time i would make use of my gellflex mold to obtain a more accurate result (closest to the given dimensions).