What baseplate color to use?

[BrickObsessed]

So, um... I am planning to build a village (not a city). Did some research and I'm wondering why most modulars created by Lego have green baseplates. I can understand if you are building a place with lots of garden, greenery or even a forest.. but since it will be covered by gray or black tiles, why use green baseplates? I feel like I am missing something here.

Edited April 24, 2021 by BrickObsessed

[Lyichir]

34 minutes ago, BrickObsessed said:

So, um... I am planning to build a village (not a city). Did some research and I'm wondering why most modulars created by Lego have green baseplates. I can understand if you are building a place with lots of garden, greenery or even a forest.. but since it will be covered by gray or black tiles, why use green baseplates? I feel like I am missing something here.

Green is one of the oldest and most common baseplate colors, so I think some of the early modulars that used green baseplates simply did so because Lego was already producing plenty of those. It also creates some natural-looking grassy space in the typically un-tiled "backyards" behind buildings, especially for residential buildings like the apartments in the Bookshop and Pet Shop sets. Conversely, commercial buildings like some of the other modulars tend to use colors like dark grey or tan in a lot of cases, or even more unconventional colors like Bright Red (used as carpeting on the untiled interior of the Palace Cinema).

Mostly the color doesn't matter unless you plan to have some of the baseplate uncovered, like in the backyard or the interiors.

[BrickObsessed]

24 minutes ago, Lyichir said:

Green is one of the oldest and most common baseplate colors, so I think some of the early modulars that used green baseplates simply did so because Lego was already producing plenty of those. It also creates some natural-looking grassy space in the typically un-tiled "backyards" behind buildings, especially for residential buildings like the apartments in the Bookshop and Pet Shop sets. Conversely, commercial buildings like some of the other modulars tend to use colors like dark grey or tan in a lot of cases, or even more unconventional colors like Bright Red (used as carpeting on the untiled interior of the Palace Cinema).

Mostly the color doesn't matter unless you plan to have some of the baseplate uncovered, like in the backyard or the interiors.

Thank you. This gives me an idea what to use.