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I am just puting together the first set of 10 skeleton troops and I was looking at the base. there are raised blobs of plastic on it..



I was thinking of basing them on a kind of stone city themed bases; so my question to you is, how would you go about it? Do I need to cut them off the base and sand it down? Or maybe sculpt around their feet?

I would like to know the easiest way to go about it. Thanks for your advice!

You could use a razor or jeweler's saw to remove the rounded based. Then pin it to a new one with the appropriate basing.

The raised portions can be removed without separating the models (slice off the taller chunks, then stick a file between their legs to knock the rest of the bumps down), but sculpting around their feet will leave them looking like they've sunk down into the stone. Best bet is to remove them, as CIsaac suggests, and attach them on top of ready-made (bought or DIY, completed separately) bases. Just be aware that the feet are relatively thin and liable to distortion (being bent as the knife/razor blade passes through or losing material to the saw blade's kerf). To keep them completely intact, you'd have to cut, clip, or saw the base off in chunks, vertically, leaving the material under the feet to be filed, sawed, or sanded flush.

Personally, I'd look into textured plasticard - I know I've seen it embossed with cobblestone and brick patterns, before. It'd be dead easy to slice a sheet of that into squares which could be glued directly on top of the Mantic bases, covering the hole left by the now unused disk. Since it's styrene, you could attach the models with plastic cement for a strong bond without pinning (saving you time and effort), so long as you didn't pan on painting the model and base separately.

I bought a squad of corporation marines to allow my command/Sgt models to look different enough from the rest of my Elysians to stand out but keep the same true scale. I cut the discs off of their feet using an x-acto blade. First I cut parallel along the feet, leaving 2 strips instead of a disc, then I trimmed it all round the feet, making it look like the trooper was wearing platforms. From there it was pretty easy to trim down to the soles of the feet. Just as an FYI you can still use the bases. Just flip them over. That way there's no need to buy more.