1:1 cars are a ton of fun, but they cost WAY more than RC. I love customizing, building, and working on mine and others 1:1 cars, but I can buy an entire RC car for the cost of one mod on my real cars generally. Sometimes I could buy several RC cars for the cost of one real car mod!! It takes a long time to wrap up $20-30,000 in RC cars and parts. I can do that with a real car in a matter of days if I have the money to do it. Plus that real car is CONSTANTLY losing value that it will never regain, generally(don't come at me with the few models of real cars that have appreciated, I know), and you just have to eat that massive amount of lost cash. RC's depreciate, but nothing like real cars, and the depreciation is a far smaller amount of cash. If you're leaving the RC hobby to tinker on real cars, more power to you, I've recently kind of done the opposite though. Money has been more tight over the past year or so and I can afford to buy RC's and do all kinds of crap with them. However, I can only afford to do a few things to my 1:1 cars. Also, if you can't do the work on a real car yourself, IMO, it's not even really worth getting into, because labor costs a fortune and the real fun in 1:1 cars (like RC cars) is building them and the fabrication side of it. Anyhow, good luck with your future endeavors.