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Hey all, I just started out with 40k and I'm in the process of putting my first few couple squads together. I've been reading a bunch of tips on what and what not to do, but I can't seem to find anything that answers one of my questions. The tab attached to the feet of my necron lord is way too wide to fit in the slot on his base. I could file down the letters on the tab until it fits, but I was wondering if there's a better way to do this that isn't as obvious.

Honestly, filing down the letters on the tab, or otherwise trimming the tab, is probably your best option. I wouldn't really recommend cutting the base slot any wider, and that would probably be the only other option, besides just totally cutting the tab off (I wouldn't recommend this either, really).

What I do is very VERY gently use your hobby knife to scrape the slot in the plastic base itself. As the above poster said, you don't really want to cut it any wider than it was intended to be, but I scrape it once or twice because sometimes there are just thing wispy pieces of flashing in there. From there, you want to just carefully cut/file the tab and keep test-fitting it. A lot of the times you can get it so it fits so nicely that you don't even have to glue it.

I myself end up doing a custom basing job so I end up cutting the tabs off of all of my guys after I finish painting them, and then I glue/pin them on to the bases once I make my urban destroyed environments. If this is an option you might like, then I reccomend getting a pin vice and some sort of metal rods/paper clip to pin your heavier models to the base, but that's just me making things overly complicated.