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This is really a question that pertains to any pewter model that has a slotted base; however, I only currently have experience with sisters of battle pewters

I'm trying to build my own custom bases for my sisters of battle army. Since I have a few more sisters than I need for my list, I've started to experiment and have run into a problem.

When I cut into the portion of the model meant to fit into the slot, the legs of the model seem to "spring" out. It's not a drastic change in pose, but does end up making a few of the sister models look a bit "off" in some non-descript way. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to prevent, fix, or just avoid this problem all together?

Thanks!

Well at first those metal model should be slightly bendable so with gentle force you can bent the legs back into position. Another problem you should think about is how to put the metal models onto your new bases. Just glueing them on is probably to weak so you must pin them. But what i've seen others do is cut the metal slot so that only the feet have metal squares under them and while building your custom base just leave holes for those blocks under the feet and you can slot the model back in after the base is done.

I tried moving them back, but they are quite stiff and I was afraid of applying too much pressure. I'll try again with my experimental models and just see how things go.

Pinning would be great but would require a lot of work and I want to get to the painting stage I might try leaving the squares on the feet as you say; although, test-gluing a model down to the bases I built didn't end up too poorly. I'll have to experiment a bit more

Thanks!