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Fuckhuge mars MOC guy here again. I ran into a major issue with my elaborate tube hanger creation. Lego does not make any large base plates in the color orange and even if they did just making a surface to put my creation on would run several hundred dollars, not including all the orange slopes, bricks and tiles needed to create the rocky martian landscape.
I briefly considered doing a majority of the landscaping work with non-lego material like you would for a train set like what was on the covers of old lego set boxes and then have some sections of rock done with bricks on top of it. I instead committed heresy recently and bought 6 large "lego compatible" orange base-plates from hong kong for super cheap. The construction is really durable and besides being slightly glossier than the on-brand bricks it the color seems to match perfectly.
Is using these off brand baseplates really the best option? I'm not super into the lego community and have never done a large landscape before. I don't seem to have many options.
