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So how do you base your models?

Renedra standard bases, between 25-40mm depending on the model.

Where is stock bases without customization?

Forgive me, forgot to add that.

 Talamare wrote:
Where is stock bases without customization?

Like a plain black base with just the model on it?

My bases are done all the same way.

PVA, sand, wash with a mix of black/pva/water, drybrush grey, spots of static grass. It's cheap, and it means that all my models have some features in common even if they're completely different armies.

Poll needs to be multiple choice...

Voted for custom bases. Basically.

I have been dabbling in making rubber moulds and casting resin bases from them. Have a couple now, amongst which a very first attempt, where I used sand, cat litter stones and a variety of skulls and pieces of sprue cut to resemble crystal growths on basic 25mm, 32mm and 40mm bases, for simple starters. Added some slate bases, which due to colour variances can also be painted to look as ice slabs for Fenris-like worlds.

I use the regular bases that come with the miniatures. I put some Citadel texture paint on, then shade and highlight it. I then glue some grass tufts onto them, or occasionally small rocks, in order to make them a little more interesting (usually I do rocks before I add the texture paint).

I always create a theme for my army that I then make bases for.

My Tau army are veterans of the Mul'guloth Bay campaign, and as such are on city-fight style bases; roadways, building rubble, etc.

My GK have lava bases to reflect that they are fighting a daemon incursion on a world that is being destroyed by Exterminatus and the planet is breaking up underneath them.

My CSM have a more 'freeform' basing scheme, and use bits of basing sand painted w/ a metallic black and have various skulls, bones, etc. on them from old TK sprues.

No multiple choice? Large bases often custom homebrew. Troops on standards with bling.