Instead of scratch builds, sCRAP builds 
.... I resemble that remark 
I like to weather toy-like things most. "Rankin & Bass do a Tool music video using Fisher Price toys". This tanker had some cheap black ink wash in it. On silver, it picked up an odd purple/blue tint like old metal pickling. It puddled black.
Below, Waaaaaay in the back, horizon level, between water tower and plateau's far left pine, on the incline comming out of the "Happy Mizer Mine ( stay away!..mine, all mine! Oh boy, I'm a happy mizer ...{Daffy Duck}),... zoom in.
The (derailed) oil tender is the actual power truck. Home spun vertical boiler. Unfinished truck plates on Life-Like (4 wheel) E or F War Bonnet's drive. A metal plate being attracted to the motor magnets holds the false tank top on at the rear, and assisted by a deep tab hidden by a false, raised up bottom in a small wood tool bin, medium height sides & corners, with a stepping/standing width "paper tray" droop cut front & center, leaving a spot to step up, almost like a ladder rung, or a figure to sit in/on if the box is empty. (all just fantasy builds, mostly "junk bin" stuff, never measured, craft paint, etc.. but folks love to stare)
The water tower is from some old table saw, board triming scraps, glued onto cloth then into a cylinder held round by wire "bands". Then the cylinder was glued onto a square tower frame.
A doll house's thin siding scraps for big roof slats, and red fireworks tail sticks for the roof frame/joint lumber's edges. Roof slat stain is red brush water, while brown brush water is on the walls, also hit with Liquid Gold dark furniture polish while barely still wet, catching dry high grains, black washes followed. 
The lowered 0 steam is narrow gauge mine inspired (inspired by a similar but tank engine by a master modeler and special effects guy, in G,...actually a "Krampus mine engine")(The "socially retired", non-PC, old German "demon" or monster that goes out kidnapping bad children on Christmas Eve, forcing them to work the mines, or whipping them, etc. I.e., Germans had a "heavy handed" side kick to St Nick, who kept him at bay from the world with promise of this yearly sadistic treat...he actually wishes to repent but is still kinda mean because he is a demon, etc etc..( many versions, but the other reason for kids to be good, preasents or not, was that the Krampus might get sent to visit you, lol.)
The pilot beam is colored by partially set brown acrylic from the lid, pushed by thumb into a stack of carry out chopsticks wrapped in heated styrene, Poked by ice pick, screwdrivers, & razor. A couple of old carpet/ upholstery tack spikes and a few nice key chain links, lol. The light bracket is an electrical crimp connector, (loop type for screws, circle "washer" shape filed straight, narrowed flush to the the lamp base's sides; stright lines)
I'll get back to the Krampus or Vertical boilers side frames some day..adding woodgrain to "old log" font,weathering the dice cup oil tanks some more, etc..
