You want to head toward wrbirds... here's a plan for you:

Get the Four-Star 40. Learn to put it through its paces. (flight characteristics are exactly what you asked for)

To prepare to tranition to a warbird... clip the outer bays off the wing. Do some more flying to get used to that. (won't take long)

Start SLOWLY adding weights on the CG. When you can comfortably take-off, fly around and land the thing with 10 oz in it (don't do hard aerobatics loaded that way..) you are ready for most of the .40 to .46 size ARF warbirds.