My first attempt at a checkpoint merge. I went through lots of tests and adjustments to get to a style that I like, hopefully you do too.

All images in the showcase are generations with no LORA, upscale, fixes etc. to test the checkpoint. Other posts have some upscaling but no LORA.

Settings for the showcase gens were all the same:

20 steps

CFG - 8

DPM++2M Karras

VAE baked in.