Now here's a novel experience, I am going to build a model of a bike I crashed! A lovely BMWR100RS, a truly great Beemer.
A friend dropped by this morning with this old 1981 kit found during a cleanup, and as I am the only active model builder he knows, he decided it was to be mine. Very kind.
By coincidence, it was a bike I not only crashed but thoroughly wrote off. I also partially wrote myself off at the time, breaking a collarbone in three places, dislocating a shoulder and taking numerous strips of bark off my legs in particular. Ouch! If you think that is bad, the bike was on loan to me, too. Wasn't even mine. The good news is that it was fully insured, I was working for a bike magazine at the time as a road-tester and that "these things sometimes happen" said the managing editor, who was also dealing with a far more expensive crashed Lamborghini on the same weekend.
As for the kit, I am sure the decals will be beyond help, but I can scan them and make replacements, but the rest of the kit is in nice order. Don't expect any updates any time soon, but I thought I'd start the thread to mark the day I got the kit.