The GAZ-AAA with BM13/16 Katyusha is a subject that has received a lot of attention recently and here we take a look at the Hobby Boss offering.
This truck isn’t a GAZ-AAA.
Hobby Boss, that’s a very strange GAZ-AAA 
I am not going to argue the title as it does correct the detail in the end of the title. I thought it may be due to a truck set up with MG’s for anti aircraft work being changed to one with tha Katyusha rocket launchers
Is that actually a Chevrolet CCKW 1 1/2t. truck?
I think so.
I agree with Dan, it appears to be HB’s version of a CCKW. As I recall it has skinny doors and they should be wider.
Yup - it’s the HB short-wheelbase CCKW (GMC 2-1/2 ton truck) with the bed replaced with the launchers. IIRC this is an accurate lash-up, unlike the Italeri one based on a post-war Soviet copy of the CCKW.
But of course it ain’t a GAZ-AAA, which was a three-axle modification of Russian-built Ford model A trucks…
Is this yet another Hobby Boss model with over long fenders, a squished cab, and squished doors?
Wait, wait, wait. Is this the same model from The strangest GAZ-AAA I have ever seen?
The postwar BM-13-16 were built on the ZiS (renamed ZiL when Staling had croaked) 151 chassis. The only thing incorrect with Italeris old kit would be any claims that it is/was a wartime Katyusha.
Later it was given these cool beefy wheels
In a museum in Berlin, cool but not quite as beefy wheels, video with detail views if someone wants to make life complicated:
As a monument on a plinth that has seen better days …
Yes. It totally is …
Everyone in Russia was also very surprised!
