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I've noticed that my hormagaunts tend to be front heavy and some don't want to stand up well. I wanted to know what method people use to weigh down based. I was thinking to fill the bottom with a putty of some sort. Thoughts?

Cut the base of the slots back with clippers and superglue some Pennies... cheapest weight ever!

My Admech travel in a metal tool box and I put magnets on all the bases. If you don't have a transport method for the bugs yet maybe you can fix two problems at once. I got these magnets form Walmart that were $1.50 for ten and they just fit under a round base quite nicely.

Pennies if it's a hollow base, lead fishing weights if it's a slotta base.

Yep, glue pennies to the underneath, or get a bag of small lead weights. Putty is an expensive and not terribly heavy solution.

Just another option:
You can buy washers that fit the base exactly at most DIY stores. This isn't the cheapest way (like a dime each) but I have found it is the best weight for me. Even with pennies (or even nickles) underneath a lot of my hormagaunts fall face first. With the washer which weighs more than the whole model, no issues. This also lets them sit on a magnetic sheet for carrying. Be warned, you are raising your base by the 1-2mm of the washer, so need to plan painting it.
I also use this for all my jump troops or anything with high center of gravity. Often replacing the base completely with a washer.

Personally I love nickles. Sure, it's five times as expensive as a penny, but we're still only talking two bucks for forty dudes.

In addition to stuff under the base, you can glue big rocks to the top of the bases to help shift the center of gravity.

Any time I need to weigh down any plastic model on either a 25mm round or 25mm square base in the past, as long as they are non-slottas, I use (US) nickels.

You can use pennys on slotta bases too. You have to cut the pennys in half to work.

 Nevelon wrote:
In addition to stuff under the base, you can glue big rocks to the top of the bases to help shift the center of gravity.

Aside from pennies as suggested, this works incredibly well if you have the time. You can fit a lot of weight under pieces of cork, etc.

Pennies. I use 2p if it's a more off balance 32mm.

40mm I've not head as many balance issues.

Pennies - they've been the savior of my harlequins.

I use small nuts (metal, not peanuts). They fit in the larger side of the base and weigh it down well. I use 2 for my genestealers.

Seconding the nickels. Just used them to keep some Stormboyz from getting tipsy. It's just about perfect size for the inside of a 25mm non-slot base and has a good deal more mass than a penny. These things put together really bring the model's center of gravity pretty much at the center of the base, as well as nice and low. They're really, really stable now and stay upright against any incidental nudge that wouldn't knock over a regular Ork boy.

That said, I have also tried lead fishing weights/sinkers, but the ones I own were either too large and would raise a base off the table, or are so small that their effect on center of gravity was kinda negligible. Are there some sort of disc-shaped weights I simply haven't seen?