The main thing stopping me from getting 8 more tie fighters is how annoying it is fixing the wings: I keep adjusting in hot water, they keep drifting back, I get mad, I throw tie fighter, I crawl on ground to look for it, etc.

I also noticed some of y'all got some really friggin straight tie panels! How do you do it? (And keep sanity?)

I used the force.

In this case, the force of heat. For me, hot water wasn't enough unless it was really hot (e.g. boiled it, let it cool just a little, put the TIE in with tweezers, then pulled it out and adjusted), just as an FYI. So you can bend them back that way.

I have a friend who also leaves them over a heater in a vise (straight on both sides, so if you screw the TIE in just so, the panels are totally flat, and then leave it over a heater for a day locked in that position before letting it cool, then releasing it). Of course, you need a vise and to live in NYC or some such with really crappy way too hot heaters, so this may be less practical unless you are experiencing the "benefits" of pre-war construction.

I also used the boiling water solution and it seems okay. You'll still get the occasional warped wing panel, but it's not nearly so bad as it was before.

I honestly just went about my day.....

and ordered some V-wings from shapeways.