While there are excellent reasons to start this adventure with electrons, when I returned to CL, I deliberately wanted the nostalgia of me and dad with 1960s with Ring Master type planes and McCoy or Fox 35s..
There are now over a dozen ways to do that
Ring Master, Twister, SkyRay, Primary Force, and on and on....from about 6 good reliable sources with very much better kits than we had in the 50s ,60s, or 70s

I guess if one is Electron competent, and already has a good selection of Batteries and charger...then the transition to EL Control line is less daunting and does offer a lot of pluses; lower noise (fly most anywhere) controllable flight time, etc etc

No need to reinvent the wheel
Brodak...has kits, ARC, and ARF models and good selection for the glow or E-flight systems needed
Brodak - Control Line Planes

RSM, has Kits, and total package E-flight systems
RSM Distribution

Stunt Hanger Forum has hundreds of pages in the "getting all AMPed Up" on models, setups, trimming, different solutions to most common problems
https://stunthanger.com/smf/gettin-all-amp'ed-up!/

There are several cottage industri guys laser cutting many modern stunt and combat planes for glow and electric

Bob Hunt
Pat Johnston
Pat King
Randy Smith
Eric Rule
Tom Dixon

Take a peak in the Stunt Hanger Vendors corner for contacts

IF control line stunt is NOT your thing then there is a growing following of Electro-trickery Combat, Carrier, FF, Scale, Racing