SIMBODIES® Professional Bruise Wheel – Special Effects Trauma Palette

Overview

Bring advanced forensic accuracy and evolution to your casualty simulations with the SIMBODIES® Professional Bruise Wheel. Developed in partnership with industry leader Kryolan, this highly pigmented cream color wheel is specifically calibrated to replicate the multi-phase timeline of deep-tissue contusions and blunt-force trauma.

Featuring five distinct, blendable trauma shades housed in a compact, partitioned wheel, this palette allows moulage technicians and clinical educators to create seamless gradients on both live roleplayers and premium platinum silicone manikins.

Key Features & Benefits

• Forensic Trauma Color Spectrum: Curated with five key clinical pigments—including deep venous blue, oxidised purple, acute inflammatory red, and maturing biliverdin green/yellow tones—to display any stage of internal bleeding.

• Ultra-Blendable Cream Matrix: High-density pigments blend effortlessly into one another using a stippling sponge or makeup brush, eliminating harsh lines for realistic, diffused perimeters.

• Silicone Safe & Asset-Friendly: Chemically optimised for high-fidelity assets. It applies smoothly over silicone skin panels and washes clean post-scenario without leaving permanent oil stains or discolouration.

• Skin Safe & Non-Toxic: Manufactured to strict dermatological standards, ensuring complete safety for direct application onto human actors during long, high-stress tactical field exercises.

Advanced Moulage Applications

Evaluating the Timeline of Abuse and Trauma: In clinical triage, emergency medicine, and forensic nursing, the discolouration of a contusion provides immediate evidence regarding the age and mechanism of an injury. By blending multi-coloured bruise wheels, instructors challenge students to detect mismatched injury timelines—a critical indicator when evaluating non-accidental trauma or domestic violence.

• Blunt-Force Contusions: Replicates deep, localised pooling caused by seatbelt signs, steering wheel impacts, or structural entrapments.

• Periorbital Hematomas ("Black Eyes"): Ideal for layering dense purple and blue tones directly around the eye sockets, with yellow edges to indicate a maturing injury.

• Blast & Friction Rash Irritation: Use the red and purple segments with a stippling sponge to mimic diffuse capillary bursting around blast margins or severe road rash.

Technical Specifications