"Best sources for 1:600/1:700 Cold War era Naval Aircraft" Topic

I'm looking to get these to provide Air Support to my 1:6000 fleets.

I checked Squadron but many of the Waterline aircraft kits are out of stock.

Where to find B-52s, BEARs, TomCats and Flankers?

Dom's Decals sells Tumbling Dice 1/600 post-WW II aircraft. See here: link

Picoarmor carries O8 1/600 aircraft
picoarmor.com

O8 only have Flankers from your list, while Tumbling Dice have 3 of your 4, in 1/600.

For 1/700, Tomcats are very easily available in a number of plastic sets, and Skywave have sets with Su-27s and B-52s. (Not sure if they're OOP or current, but they're out there…)

Bears are a problem in either scale. Some long OOP Dragon 1/700 kits included a rather basic Bear, but otherwise I suspect Shapeways is the only (expensive, as these scales really need the Frosted Ultra Detail material) option.

Thanks! May take a call to Brookhurst to see what I can fill

Sadly, a lot of stuff goes out of production far too readily.

If you decide to go with 1/700th, let me know, since I've got a couple of packs of B-52/B-1 sets I might be willing to part with, as well as a Soviet aircraft set too, with Flankers, Fulcrums, and lots of other nice Russian aircraft in it. The latter is a pretty large set, in one box.

All mint, in original packaging.

I was going to use them for the Cold War, but went with 1/600th, instead.

There's a Bear bomber in one of the Pit-Road/Skywave packs, with a submarine in it too.

TD's B52 is sort of wonky. Suggest you look at it on Dom's deals website. I much prefer the ones in the 1/700 plastic sets or several of the diecasts.

This one is abaout 1/600 auction

I really like the Furuta which is about 1/700 auction

Not sure about the Micomachine models but they might do for you.

Have you considered 1/1200? Lots of nice aircraft from CAP Aero. link BTW these are available from Magister Militum if you are in Europe.

The 1/1200th CAP Aero jets are really nice, but very expensive when compared to other miniatures from various companies, which produce them in much larger scales, like 1/600th.

Partly it is making sure I can see the differences on the table. The ships will be tiny (1:6000) and the illusion will be that the Aircraft are a a greater distance from the ships.