About Us:
My name is Andreas Rieger; I’m a trained electronics technician and hobbyist. I founded my company in 2016. It all started when I wanted to make my dream come true: to build my own 1:8-scale PistenBully. I’ve been fascinated by the PistenBully ever since I was a kid, and I still am today. While skiing, I’d watch the PistenBully grooming the slopes and couldn’t get enough of how cleanly and precisely the tiller groomed the snow. Surely it must be possible to recreate something like that as a model. It took years for my first PistenBully, complete with all its components, to be finished, because I wanted to create an exact replica of its big brother. Of course, this is only possible with the original data from Kässbohrer, with whom I have an exclusive contract as the sole manufacturer of 1:12-scale models. Now I had to figure out something for the lighting, since I didn’t like the rotating beacon lights that were available on the market at the time. So I developed our own rotating beacon light in 1:12 scale, and as demand continued to grow, I added 1:16 and 1:8 scales in various colors and with different caps. Shortly thereafter, the Kingbus was developed as a two-wire lighting system to minimize wiring complexity. This made it possible to faithfully reproduce the many lighting functions of the PistenBully prototype with a xenon effect and to conveniently control each individual function via the Kingpad. This system was then adapted for trucks and other functional models and expanded to include functions for trailers. This is how my company grew in the areas of PistenBully and electronics. Today, we develop and produce our circuit boards here in-house, as well as our PistenBully kits and ready-to-run models. Components that we cannot produce in-house are manufactured in Germany. In this way, we create and preserve jobs. My special thanks go to all my employees, without whom none of this would be possible.
Pistenking Funktionsmodellbau is an official licensing partner of Kässbohrer Geländefahrzeug AG.