I'm looking for a tool that can paste the resources from a .res file into a dumped pe executable (the exe has no resources). A surpsingly big number of reseditors can not do this. Right now I'm using ResHacker + MSVS.NET but it is still too much mouse clicking.

What is preferred way of doing this?

you could use lordpe to add a res sections by "load[ing] section from disk" on your target

Thanks disavowed!
Your advice helped. There is really no need to translate the resources to and from the .res format if I can cut and paste them into exe directly.