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I used citadel plastic glue.

Having had to do something similar recently, I can assure you that it is very difficult to accomplish. For a few models, I just couldn't do it. That said, if you very (and I mean very) carefully cut through the soles of the feet you can remove models (such as Space Marines, Tau, Eldar, etc) from their bases with minimal loss of material off the model. You can then sand down the top of the base so that it's returned to it's original state.

Again, it's not something I would recommend, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

If they were slotta bases? Not really if you glued them well.

If they were flat bases, then possibly. I would recommend a jewellers saw, but you could possibly use a scalpel if you were very careful, and cut the join.

Plastic glue actually welds the joins, so, unlike super glue, once the join is set, it should be more or less permanent.

One messy thing you can do If it's stuck real good is slowly apply plastic glue around the soles and use an exacto knife to peel it up as it remelts the feet. If you're careful it will eventually reach a point where it pops off. But if you did a real good job on the first glue it can really mess the bases and figures up cuz there won't be a spot that's weak.

I damn near cut the top of my thumb off trying to get a model off its base after using plastic glue. That stuff is ridiculously strong. Be *VERY* careful if decide to try with a knife.

Ah, this little issue. Has caused me to say screw it and wreck bases, sometimes unfortunately wrecking a models poor lower extremities in the process :\ no good.

The only time it's been a hassle free process for the most part is certain types of glue and IIRC Gorilla Glue was a fairly easy job.

Hate to be a debbie downer here, but you might have to suck it up and rebase - I would rather rebase than buy a new model. Easy for me to say though.

Just short of kevlar gloves and an excalibur-like exacto knife to sliver-away the soles of the feet, I don't think theres any way to escape certain glue jobs without some collateral damage my friend

Cut them off using snips, just do it flush with the base.

Unless you have put terrain on the bases, this will work.

You will lose a bit of material from the feet, but this will be the best you can do.

If you are not sure what kind of snips, I am talking about these;

http://www.flamesofwar.com/DesktopModules/Store/Thumbnail.aspx?IP=~/Portals/0/all_images/GF9/Tools/GFT015.jpg&IW=710&IH=400

High risk:
Depending on how much glue you used, you can use cutters.if both blades slip under the feet, the only damage you should expect is some scraping at the feet. Worst that could happen is you might get the model off withhalf a foot, and maybe half a leg(because the other leg might have torn...)

Just lie the model flush with a surface and slice through the connecting point with a knife. Clippers would probably just be giving yourself more work and lead to more damage to the model than just a straight cut with a knife.

Generally, you have to pick one or the other. For a pristine base, slice parallel to the surface (easier with a chisel-style blade). The feet (or whatever the point of contact is), however, are likely to become distorted, if not outright mangled. To preserve the model, it's usually best to cut the base away, bit by bit, until only the material under the feet is left, then file it down until it's flush with the sole.

Any chance you can just carefully pry/snap the model free? Citadel Plastic Glue isn't exactly known for its quality...

Plastic glue melts the two plastic items being joined together. Generally speaking, whenever I've re-based, I just write off the base and cut it apart from below using clippers, to avoid damaging my model.

I've cut (non-slotted) models off bases using a hobby knive, a lot of care and patience. That was a mini I didn't care about though.

For anything you don't want to risk, I'd scratch any base decoration that's solid (sand, rocks) off and then carefully cut the base away so you are left with the mini standing on two small bits of base, which you can then file off.

I concur with most of the posters here that its gonna be hard, dangerous and probably futile to try and remove well glued down legs from a base, firstly as if you've got stuff on your base there is no way you are going to be able to get the flat angle for the blade.

Cutters will always destroy/damage in my experience.

In future you may just want to think about only using a tiny dab of superglue when attaching you model to the base. It is slightly more prone to falling off occasionally (maybe 1/100), but can be snapped off when needed without enough force to damage model or base.

Usually you'll damage the base and not the model, depending on what you've used and where the model is connected to the base. If it's a space marine/ork it'll probably be the base, but if it's a Tyranid the legs will most likely snap off. Even carnifexes/hive tyrants. If you use greenstuff/superglue you can just pop them in the freezer for a few minutes and then snap them off the base.

try soaking them in simple green/another known paint strippers as they also weaken glue from my experience

I got my hobby knife out and started working
Three hours later
"feth this gak" note that my thumb now feels like it is in seven pieces.
And then I chopped the base to tiny, tiny peices...