Want vs. Need

Do I need a 1/72nd scale Taurus armoured engineering vehicle?
Not really.
Do I want a 1/72nd scale Taurus armoured engineering vehicle?
I didn't know that I did until one was offered to me.

A gaming contact had purchased one  from Baxmod Models out of South Africa for a 1985 era 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (Canada's NATO contingent) project.

After assembling the model he realized that it was on the current Leopard 2 hull. He needs one on the Leopard 1 hull. After reading about my Canadians in the Panjwayi project he contacted me with a deal.

So this arrived in the mail this week:

Already assembled and primed!

And he did a brilliant job with some rare earth magnets so that the crane moves!

Here it is compared to my Dragon Models Leopard:

My Combat Engineer detachment just got an upgrade!