Grey Tide Studio Bits UK: Eternal Pilgrims, Primal Hounds & More

The easiest way to lose interest in a painted army is to set it down next to three other armies that look like variations on the same thing. Grey Tide Studio exists for the people who find that problem genuinely irritating. Their conversion bits — printed in resin to order, stocked across their full range at TabletopXtra — are built to give you something that reads as yours, not as a colour-scheme variant of a kit everyone else already owns. We carry the full Grey Tide Studio range UK-wide, and this is what you need to know before picking up your first pack.

What Grey Tide Studio Actually Makes

They make bits. Not full sculpts, not complete kits. Conversion components: shoulder pads, heads, weapons, armour panels, cloaks, base toppers, specialised upgrade packs. Their entire model is built around the idea that you already have a base miniature — a Primaris-scale space warrior proxy in some form — and what you need is the layer of detail on top that turns that base into something with a distinct visual identity.

That is a narrower focus than most studios, and it has paid off. Their MyMiniFactory profile has over 2.5 million views and nearly 28,000 likes, with more than 11,000 followers. When they ran the Eternal Pilgrims Kickstarter they asked for €6,000 and closed at €75,967 — over 1,200% funded with 2,070 backers. That is not a cult following. That is a studio that found a gap and filled it precisely.

Everything they design is scaled at 28mm and 32mm Primaris-compatible, which means the bits integrate cleanly with the most widely-used base kits in grimdark sci-fi wargaming. No scratchbuilding to make things fit. The scale work is done.

Eternal Pilgrims: The Range That Built the Reputation

Eternal Pilgrims is the flagship line. Armoured space warriors with a devotional, crusading aesthetic — heavier in feel than standard power armour, with details that lean into ceremony and weight. Carved inscriptions, heavy pauldrons, reliquary elements worked into the plates. The range does not look utilitarian. It looks like soldiers who also function as walking monuments to something.

The Fist Pairs Pack 5 is a strong entry point for squad conversions. The Ancient Armour Upgrade Kit 2 goes further, with armour panels that rework the silhouette of an existing model from the body up. The kit-based approach means you pay for what you actually need. If you want to convert a squad of five, you buy enough heads and shoulders for five models, not a spruesworth of extras you will never use.

Primal Hounds, Crimson Lords and Anvil Wardens

The Eternal Pilgrims line is where most people start, but Grey Tide Studio has built a family of related ranges around it. Each takes a distinct visual direction, which gives you genuine options for sub-factions or visual layers within a single army.

Primal Hounds reads differently from the Pilgrims. Where the Pilgrims are devout and ceremonial, the Hounds are hunters: aggressive details, animalistic elements, packs of five sold with matching base toppers to tie the visual language together across a unit. The 5x Space Warrior Jump Packs and the Base Topper Pack B let you kit out an assault unit with matching equipment and basing. That kind of cohesion across a squad is what makes a converted army look considered rather than collected.

Crimson Lords goes in a more aristocratic direction. Crested helmets, elegant blades — this is the range for a commander's retinue or elite veterans that need to read as a cut above the line infantry. The swords and crest helmets sit naturally alongside heavier Eternal Pilgrims armour bodies if you want to mix aesthetics within a force.

Anvil Wardens is the studio's most complete range. Full upgrade packs, two tiers of hero packs, shields, spears, loincloths, three shoulder pad options, plasma guns, hellfire guns, flamer guns. If you want to build an entire force around a single aesthetic rather than mixing and matching, the Anvil Wardens pieces are all there. The full pack gives you everything at once; the individual component packs let you buy only what a specific unit needs.

Cursed Company rounds out the named lines. It sits in a darker register, better suited to a warband or kill team that needs to read as distinct from — or opposed to — the main force.

Which Games Are These Bits For?

Grey Tide Studio design for "sci-fi grimdark" wargaming at 28mm and 32mm, which is deliberately broad. The scale and aesthetic are compatible with any game using Primaris-scale space marine proxy bodies. That covers a substantial list: OnePageRules' Grimdark Future, Firefight, Necromunda-adjacent skirmish games, and the large community of players running proxy-friendly campaigns in the hobby's dominant sci-fi systems.

The conversion-bits model is particularly useful for players who want a legal-to-play army in one ruleset and a visually distinct collection that still uses familiar base kits. A squad of Primaris-scale bodies with Eternal Pilgrims armour panels, Primal Hound jump packs, and Crimson Lords heads can be fielded in most games that accept proxy models. On the table it reads as nothing like a standard space marine army.

Assembly requires no specialist tools. These are cast components designed to fit existing bodies cleanly. The work is standard: remove from sprue where applicable, clean mould lines, glue. Anyone who has built a plastic kit can handle it.

Where to Start

We carry the full Grey Tide Studio range at TabletopXtra, printed in resin to order and shipped across the UK. Browse the Grey Tide Studio collection to see everything we stock. Their full STL catalogue — including files for home printing — is on their MyMiniFactory profile.

If you want a single first purchase to test the aesthetic, the Ancient Armour Upgrade Kit 2 from the Eternal Pilgrims line gives you enough variety to convert a squad and a clear read on how the studio's visual language sits on a finished model. If you already know you want to build a full force around a single look, the Anvil Wardens full pack is the faster route there.