While not RC, I've always had a love for warbirds too. One of my dads friends owns and restores them, and specializes in B-25s. I've flown in 2 of them, and it is amazing. His restorations are perfect, and have won Grand Champion at Oshkosh several times.
Its funny, he was a car/off road guy before he got into warbirds. He actually owned his own race transaxle shop for VWs back in the 70s, and raced Baja. He and my dad also worked for Mickey Thompson in the 70s when he owned SCORE and ran all of the Baja races. One day he was up at a local air field and saw a derelict B-25 sitting off the end of the runway and bought it. At that time he didn't even know how to fly, or anything else about airplanes. The rest is history!