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+# Storetank image-models archive — curation record + remaining catalog
+
+**Host:** irv-ml1 · **Path:** `/storetank/image-models/comfy/models`
+(this tree is also the native `/opt/ComfyUI/models` symlink target. The **docker /
+arbo** ComfyUI uses a *separate, active* tree at `/storetank/arbo/models` —
+see [`arbo-comfyui-model-catalog.md`](arbo-comfyui-model-catalog.md).)
+
+**Snapshot:** 2026-06-13. This is the older CivitAI-managed model pile, curated
+down from **919 G → 238 G** in a kill-the-superseded pass. Two purposes: (1) record
+what was removed and why, and (2) catalog what remains, so **comfy-dev** can pick
+migration candidates into the active arbo set.
+
+## Curation pass (2026-06-13) — 681 G reclaimed
+
+Killed everything superseded by arbo's current-gen stack (FLUX.2-klein, WAN2.2,
+qwen-image, z-image). Two principles: generation-locked LoRAs have no value without
+their (also-superseded) base models, and arbo already carries its own copies of the
+shared encoders/VAEs.
+
+| Killed | Size | Why |
+|---|---|---|
+| **Hunyuan video** (diffusion_models + unet + vae + loras) | 74 G | older video arch; not in arbo, niche |
+| **WAN2.1 bases + loras** | 118 G | superseded by arbo's WAN2.2; loras gen-locked |
+| **WAN2.1 encoders / VAE** (umt5, xlm-roberta, clip_vision_h, wan VAE) | 44 G | exact dupes of arbo's own copies |
+| **FLUX.1 — everything** (dev/schnell/fill + ~20 community merges + loras + flux controlnets / redux / pulid / clip-vision / FLUX.D encoder / Florence-2-Flux) | 445 G | superseded by arbo's FLUX.2-klein; loras gen-locked |
+| **orphaned umt5** (root `umt5_xxl_fp8`) | 6.7 G | last WAN remnant |
+| **TOTAL** | **681 G** | 919 → 238 G |
+
+Kept the shared **t5xxl / clip-L / clip-G / CLIP-ViT-H** encoders — SD3.5 + SDXL
+still use them.
+
+## What remains (238 G) — migration catalog for comfy-dev
+
+### Generators
+
+**`checkpoints/` (122 G) — SDXL / Pony / Illustrious bases.** Self-contained lane,
+**not** superseded by FLUX.2 (different style space):
+- ponyRealism V22 (MainVAE 6.6 G, Hyper-8S, Hyper-4S) · cyberrealisticPony_v8 ·
+  uberRealisticPornMerge Pony · hardcoreHentai Pony · babesByStableYogi Pony ·
+  realDream sdxlPony
+- juggernautXL Lightning · dreamshaperXL Lightning · sdxlLightning_4Steps (`SDXL Lightning/`)
+- lustifySDXLNSFW (endgame + endgame-DMD2) · hassakuXLPony · waiNSFWIllustrious_v110 ·
+  batchCOREALISM (`SDXL 1.0/`)
+- SUPIR upscalers — v0Q / v0F (`.ckpt` 5.0 G ea + fp16 2.5 G ea)
+- controlnetxlCNXL Anytest V4 (2.3 G)
+
+**`unet/` (28 G) — other generators:**
+- chroma-unlocked v10 + v11 Q8 (9.6 G ea) — Chroma (flux-schnell-derived, Apache)
+- sd3.5_large Q8 (8.2 G) — SD3.5 Large
+
+### LoRAs (2.1 G) — SDXL/Pony only (FLUX.1/WAN2.1 loras were killed)
+- dmd2_sdxl_4step (+ fp16) — SDXL 4-step distill
+- ACE++ (ali-vilab): portrait_lora64, subject_lora16, local_lora16 — FLUX-editing loras
+- Illustrious + PonyXL character-design concept loras
+
+### Gen-agnostic utility models — the prime migration candidates (work with ANY generator)
+- **Upscalers:** Aura-SR v1/v2 (9.3 G) · `upscale_models/` (3.8 G — HAT, DAT,
+  RealESRGAN, UltraSharp, Remacri, NMKD, Omni-SR, AnimeSharp — ~50 models)
+- **Captioning / VLM:** `LLM/` (8.6 G — Florence-2 large/base PromptGen, CogFlorence) ·
+  `florence2/` (3.6 G — PromptGen v2 + base)
+- **ControlNet:** controlnet_union_promax (2.3 G, SDXL union)
+- **Detect / segment / matte:** grounding-dino (1.6 G) · sams (721 M — SAM-HQ + SAM ViT-B) ·
+  ultralytics (146 M — yolo face/hand/eyes/person) · depthanything v2 (1.3 G) ·
+  vitmatte (198 M) · nsfw_detector (329 M)
+- **Face / ID:** insightface (1.3 G — inswapper_128 + antelopev2) · facerestore (937 M) ·
+  facexlib (156 M)
+- **IP-Adapter:** ip-adapter-plus_sdxl_vit-h (809 M)
+- **CLIP vision:** CLIP-ViT-H-14 (3.7 G) · sigclip_384 (0.8 G) · EVA02-CLIP-L (0.8 G)
+- **VAE:** sdxl base vae (6.5 G) · SD3.5 vae · vae_approx
+- **Misc:** interpolation, luts, mediapipe
+
+### Shared text encoders (kept — needed by SD3.5 / SDXL)
+- t5xxl fp16 (9.1 G) + Q8 gguf (4.7 G) · SD35L clip_g / clip_l · ViT-L TE variants
+- ⚠️ **llava_llama3 fp16 (15 G) + fp8 (8.5 G)** — **likely orphaned** (this was
+  HunyuanVideo's text encoder, now killed). Flag for deletion if nothing else
+  references it → **~23.5 G** further reclaim.
+
+## Migration guidance (comfy-dev's call, with the operator)
+- **High-value, low-risk → migrate into arbo:** the gen-agnostic utilities
+  (upscalers, Florence-2 captioners, controlnet-union, grounding-dino / SAM / yolo,
+  depthanything, insightface, ip-adapter, CLIP-vision). They work with arbo's
+  FLUX.2 / WAN2.2 stack and arbo may lack several.
+- **Migrate IF you still gen SDXL/Pony:** the `checkpoints/` SDXL-Pony stack + its
+  loras — self-contained, not replaced by FLUX.2.
+- **Kill candidates:** Chroma + SD3.5-large (niche, not in arbo) and the orphaned
+  llava_llama3 (23.5 G).
+
+**Access:** browse the live tree directly at `irv-ml1:/storetank/image-models/comfy/models`.