The hot water or hair dryer should work. Since yours is an unfinished kit I would figure out a way to reinforce it with metal after the parts are true.
My VF-4 is finished and I don't want to re-do it since I used the decals from a Hasegawa 1/72 and an old Imai 1/100 and have no replacements.
Two things I learned. First the VF-4 did not fit to great from the start and I thought about reinforcing the wings but did not because I was lazy. Didn't want to cut a channel, lay a piece of wire, fill, then sand.
No more than three days including drying time?
Second, scan all decals even if you can not reproduce them yourself so you at least have the file and can email it to those that can. Also helps when people want to reproduce it, just send a jpeg with all the markings.
Only have four resin models finished and they are fun / interesting in the shadow of Bandi and Hasegawa.
Also the model masters here are a great help. The is no such thing as a stupid question just stupid people.
After a quick laugh the answer presents itself thanks to their help.