Updated: Feb 4, 2026
base model
Hey everybody!
I'm really excited to share my new model with you all!
I decided to separate this checkpoint from the rest of my models because it's built in a very different way from the others and I think it's the best model I've made so far. I merged 3 models (Plant Milk: Walnut, Vete ┃ Dreamland ILL, and Copper Thyme) then fine-tuned that model with 500 images using OneTrainer. It wasn't very stable though so I merged it back in with the model I had trained it on and refined it by merging again with an older checkpoint I had abandoned.
The style is very different from what I intended but I really like the results. Comtesse Raffinée translate to English as Refined Countess. I named it that because the style reminded me of Duchesse but it's more elegant, refined and flexible. Although it has a dramatic and cinematic style of its own it still works well with artist and style tags as well as LoRAs.
I do plan on trying more testing with finetuning and if I can get a good model from that I'll publish it and detail the process in an article.
Image Settings
Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras / Euler A/ Restart
Steps: 25–50 (base), 30–50+ for Hi-Res Fix
CFG: 3–7
Clip Skip 2