ICBINP | Civitai vs OrangeMixs on Hugging Face

ICBINP is a Stable Diffusion 1.5 checkpoint merge built to push photorealistic image generation as far as a local SD 1.5 setup allows. The Civitai model page hosts multiple versions, with Mid 2024 as the latest major release updated in February 2025. Each variant ships as a pruned fp16 SafeTensor file with the SD-v2 840k VAE baked in, so you can load it in Automatic1111, ComfyUI, or any standard SD 1.5 interface without swapping VAEs.

Where most photorealistic checkpoints chase a single aesthetic, ICBINP grew through successive merges. It started from the RCNZ Gorilla With A Brick base, then folded in ten more photorealistic models at varying weights plus noise offset tuning. The Mid 2024 version adds a LoRA trained on Pexels stock photos merged with ICBINP Final, which tightens skin and lighting realism but still shows typical SD 1.5 quirks like cleft chin bias.

The author recommends DPM++ 3M SDE Karras or DPM++ 2M Karras at 20 to 30 steps with CFG between 2.5 and 5. Resolution sweet spot is 640x960 with a hires fix pass, though 768x1152 works if you hunt seeds to avoid duplicate heads. Beyond portraits, the checkpoint handles CGI characters and landscapes when prompted accordingly.

Downloads are free from Civitai under CreativeML Open RAIL-M. The Mid 2024 file (ICBINP_midYear.safetensors) weighs 2.21 GB and needs about 3.4 GB recommended VRAM. With 163,500+ downloads and 285 Very Positive reviews, it remains one of the most downloaded photorealistic SD 1.5 merges on the platform.

OrangeMixs on Hugging Face hosts WarriorMama777's collection of Stable Diffusion merge checkpoints for text-to-image anime and illustration work. The repository bundles families like AbyssOrangeMix3, VividOrangeMix, BloodOrangeMix, and EerieOrangeMix, each tuned with U-Net block weight merging for different paint styles and realism levels.

Compared with single-base SD 1.5 checkpoints, OrangeMixs publishes full merge recipes, SHA256 hashes, sampler settings, and variant suffixes such as _sfw, _nsfw, and _hard so you can pick a checkpoint by intended output. AOM3 files are about 1.98 GB each, and the README documents negative prompts, CFG ranges, and hires fix settings tested by the community.

OrangeMixs targets local Stable Diffusion users on Automatic1111, ComfyUI-style workflows, or the Hugging Face Diffusers library. Downloads are free under the CreativeML OpenRAIL-M license, with optional Gradio demos and imports for Draw Things and DiffusionBee.