Version 1:

Tool used: ComfyUI-DareMerge

Base - Quintessence V1 (DARE-Ties merge between TAME Pony v2 (Base), SnowPony v1, WAI-ANI-NSFW-PONYXL v8)

The resulting final version is everything I wanted from a Pony realistic model. Enjoy!

Keep in mind that I am very new to this, and if you love this model make sure to check out the recommended ones. Special thanks to @zyxt99565 for making the TAME Pony checkpoint, which I used as the first version base for this one. Do give it a try too as that might be one of the best "raw realism" SDXL/Pony checkpoints ever released.

I wanted to augment some of the gritty realism it provides with a bit of the more dynamic Pony concepts according to my personal preferences. DARE-TIES merging is incredible and I experimented some stuff while making this. Thus this model was born