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Get a picture of an A-10 Warthog to use as a guide for the specifics of the shapes and decorations that you wish to add beyond what this article covers.
Make a tube that is 15 inches long and 1 1/2 inches in diameter out of three sheets of paper. Lay the sheets so that two of them are touching with the top of the sheet to the bottom of the other sheet. Lay a third sheet so that it overlaps both of them. Spread out the top and bottom sheets (the first two sheets) so that they are two feet long. Use tape to make the three sheets stick together and then roll the paper up to 1 1/2 inch in diameter. Apply craft glue to the rolled paper along the edges and use paperclips to hold the paper until the glue dries.
Make the first crease. Crease the tube of paper in the back into itself starting at one end and going up a third of the tube. Pinch the rounded edges on either side of the crease when the crease is deep enough so the end of the tube is 1/2 inch in diameter. Glue the crease in place with craft glue and use a paper clip to hold it until dry.
Make the second crease. Crease the tube the same way on the opposite side near the opposite end of the tube but only have the crease go one-fifth of the way up the tube. Glue this crease by pinching together the rounded edges on either side of it. Glue the crease in place with craft glue and use a paper clip to hold it until dry. Cap off both ends with a piece of paper that you glue over the open ends.
Make a wide cone of paper for the cockpit. The cone of paper should be 1 inch deep and 3 inches wide. Make sure that the cone is not a funnel and that the end is closed. Use craft glue to hold the cone together and allow it to dry. Hold the cone on the area toward the front where the cockpit belongs based on the picture you got in Step 1. As a guide, remember that the first crease is the one at the back under the tail. Glue the cone in place and trim off any extra from the lip of the cone that sticks out on the sides of the cockpit, if desired.
Make the two wings. The wings should be shaped like an airfoil (like normal wings) by pinching the front edge and back edge so that the top bulges a little. Use scrap paper on the inside and glue to give the wing the proper shape by holding the trailing edge of the wing at a sharper angle and leaving the front edge along. The wings do not need to be tapered and should stick out straight on either side of the plane. The wings need to be 5 inches wide (front to back) and 9 inches long (from the body of the plane outward). Do not glue the wings on yet.
Add a fuel tank to the wing by forming a 3-inch tube and adding a piece of paper that has been creased radially so that it can be glued as a cap over the end of the tube. Do this to the back end of the tube as well. Glue the fuel tanks on the underside of the wings two inches from the place where the wings will be glued to the plane.
Make the tail fin by making a single wing. Form it as an airfoil like you did earlier with the wings. Make sure it is 6 inches wide (side to side) by 2 1/2 inches (front to back). Add vertical stabilizers to the ends of this "mini-wing" on the tail section by cutting them so that they are 2 1/2 inches by 3 inches and then tapering the front edge along a 3-inch side so that one of the 2 1/2-inch sides becomes 2 inches. Glue a vertical stabilizer to either end of the tail wing so that the 2 1/2-inch part is on the edge of the airfoil. Make sure that the stabilizers stick straight up and are perpendicular to the mini-wing and that the tapered edge faces the front. Glue the mini-wing (tail fin) to the back end of the model.
Create a small series of seven tubes the size of an ink tube in a pen. Make them 2 inches long and glue them into a bundle. Cut a small piece of paper 1/2 centimeter wide and 1/2 inch long. Wrap and glue this a centimeter from an end of the bundle and glue it in place. Cut a small hole the diameter of this bundle into the front of the plane to the right of the center. Insert the bundle with the banded side facing out and glue it to make the machine gun that sticks out the front of this plane.
Make the two engines. Create two rolls of paper that are 3 inches long each and have a 1-inch diameter. Glue the rolls so they don't come undone. Cut one end of the tube at intervals of 1 centimeter, 1 centimeter deep to make tabs. Use the edge of your scissors to give a slight curl to the tabs so that they curve inward toward of the center of the tube. Glue the tabs together to make a tapered effect on the front of the engines.
Cut tabs at the back of the tube that are 2 centimeters wide and 2 centimeters deep. Do not curl these but glue them together to make them taper to create a smaller hole at the back end that is 2 centimeters smaller in diameter.
Glue the two tubes to either side of the body of the plane just forward of the tail. Position them in this location so they don't point at the tail fins. Make sure that the engines are up higher on the plane slightly above the tail fin position.
Glue on the wings just forward of the engines but make sure that they are positioned low on the fuselage.