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Just as the title suggests, do you base your minis to match your terrain/table? Or vise versa, do you build your terrain to match your minis' basing?

I generally do, as long as it is all on the same theme. I don't have much qualms about using mismatched terrain, but when I am building my own terrain, I try to keep things consistent with my table and between terrain pieces.

My primary game table is in a desert theme, so most of my personal terrain collection is desert themed of one kind or another. I have general desert stuff like sand dunes, socks, and such. For 15mm gaming I've got Middle Eastern/African buildings. I've got various sci-fi ruins based in a desert theme, and of course most of my Freebooter's Fate terrain is desert island stuff. I also have a bunch of homemade Wild West terrain. It is amazing how many games can easily take place in arid or sandy regions.

I try to do my models in a similar basing scheme. I've got two methods, one painted, one unpainted. The unpainted scheme is simply to use two layers of play sand glued on with Titebond III Ultimate Wood Glue and then sealed with a final layer of the glue. Titebond III has a brownish color, and it darkens the sand a bit. This meshes well with my painted method but is simpler and quicker to do. It also allows the terrain and bases to look less out of place on other tables, because it is a very neutral color.

My IG is all based in an urban ruins theme though, but I started working on those boys before I began building up my own extensive terrain collection. Nowadays I like to do all of my models in a desert theme, unless it is wrong for the setting or the feel of the models, such as with things like Mordheim or my Vampire Counts army.

So I guess that is a long way of saying that nowadays I base my minis to match my terrain collection, for the most part. This is largely to do with the fact that I embarked on a long campaign of terrain building several years ago now, and a lot of work on my miniatures has been put on the back burner in favor of developing a varied and extensive personal terrain collection. So now when I go back to basing minis, I base them consistently with my terrain collection.