Great discussion, one technique that I struggled with for years was the neat tapered body.

A video by Del Mazza showed a very simple idea.

Very, very sparce dubbing and apply in layers, first layer is entire body, second layer is 3/4 body length, third layer is 1/2 body length,,,,etc. A neat tapered body is easily produced. This can only be done with VERY sparce amounts of dubbing.

As stated by alanb_ ct,,,try and learn without wax, if the dubbing is very sparce, wax is not necessary and is only a crutch for using too much dubbing.

Regards,
FK