No, it doesn’t seem to work like that, i’ve tried. I placed the axis at the pointy most bit and tried to scale it up/wipe it on/rotate as it did so. Really tricky and didn’t look convincing.
Thanks Randy – appreciated and i’ll possibly do it this way. Didn’t know you could do that. I need the object to be flat though. Here’s a few frames from photshop to illustrate better what i’m trying to achieve: