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Has anyone had any new break throughs on changing out bases form Square to Circle? The more I see about the game changing makes me want to take more part in it. I still have my old Tomb King stuff and purchased a Mortarch, Coven Throne (one built one still in the box), Morgast and Nagash right at the end times. I have them all on the old bases.

Wanted to see if anyone found any easier way to take the bases off, especially since I have put sand on some of mine and figure that would probably ruin anything I used to cut it with. Has anyone trying to put just the base in a shallow plate of acetone and melt it off? I figured I'd still be holding the model itself to keep it out of the liquid.

If you used super glue its easy. Otherwise its a nightmare. Which is why I'll never rebase my older models.

Cut them off with a scalpel.
Or cut away the sides of the base, glue the now flat sqaure base on a round base, (trim the edges), and add more basing material to hide the old base.

It was a variety of different glue, it was kinda just what ever was in reach at the moment when I was basing. I was new at the time.

I may go to HomeDepot and pick up a few crappy cutters and try to clip the base around it.


Which is why I was considering the acetone to try melting it loose. I may try it with a model I don't care about to see what happens.

Edit: I guess it wouldn't matter on the metal ones I could just submerge it.

I often find it easiest to just break off the riser so that the old base is flat, then file the edge until it's smooth and glue it to the top of the round base. Kind of like what Hanskrampf suggested.

for slotta bases with metal figs;
I hold the figure wrapped in a small towel (protect the paint and my fingers)
then use a pair of pliers to grab the plastic base,
flex and bend with the pliers untill the base breaks at the slotta line,
turn the fig around and do the same with the other side (which usually comes off much easier)
sometimes you then need to use wire cutters to trim off any plastic bits still stuck to the slotta tab

hope it helps!
I do mine assembly line style,
and have rebased probably 100+ figures to round
(I also use them for Dragon Rampant)

Metals in slot bases are relatively easy (speaking as an SoB player), you can basically fold the base in half along the line of the slot.

For plastics, cut around the feet and just glue figure and leftover bits of the old base to a new base, and apply some sand to hide the bump

Here is a good rebase guide: http://www.mengelminiatures.com/2015/07/tutorial-rebasing-your-fantasy-models.html

Just to warn you, as you mentioned it twice - acetone vapour alone will melt a mini just as surely as submerging it. Don't do that - just get a cheap set of stanley blades and work with those.