Not sure if bees might do it this way - but just looking at pictures of early stages of nests such as [1] or [2], wasps apparently don't: It looks as if they do construct proper hexagons from the get-go.

[1] http://www.localhoney.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/start...

[2] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uM7ATVMEcDA/TdcWZm9BPEI/AAAAAAAAI8...

Jürgen Tautz's "The Buzz about Bees" mentions this.

It says the bees build cylindrical cells around themselves initially, but then raise the temperature of the wax to 37-40 degrees C, when the wax is warm enough to flow into the hexagonal shapes.

(Pages 172-176)