do you really want to do something different? I mean something that next to no one has really done before?
Tell you what I would do....and this one is definitely on my list of next to get. Get the Trumpeter 1/32 F-8E Crusader....then, go check out Fisher Models....Paul has put together a conversion kit to turn Trumpy's F-8E into an RF-8G Photo Crusader.....these were in service until the mid 1980s on USN carriers. A VERY iconic Cold War aircraft....from the Cuban Missile Crisis, to Vietnam, almost right to the end of the Soviet Union. Not to mention, the Fisher kit is an absolute work of art...
http://fishermodels.indiemade.com/product/rf-8g-photo-crusader-conversion-132?tid=3
Comes with 6 decal options....1 is the a/c flown by CDR Eckert, Cuban Missile Crisis. 3 is an aircraft that was actually aboard ship with my dad in 1967, he was a plane captain with VF-13. 5 and 6 are both from the mid 1970s if you wanted to do a later bird.
Lots of people have done an F-4 or an A-10, those kits have been around for a long time in this scale now. But next to no one has done one of these.....
EDIT--sorry, I misread that. It does not come with the decals, but that sheet is available from Zotz.