Running a Task Sequence within a Task Sequence

We are running an SCCM 2012 R2 setup for OSD, WSUS, App Deployment and Endpoint Protection.
To simplify the management of drivers across several OSD task sequences, I'd like to have one "master" task sequence containing only Apply Device Drivers with model specific targeting that is referenced from the OSD task sequences.
Why would I want this? With every new computer model that is being added to the environment (We are currently supporting 20 different computer models, and the list keeps growing), I have to update one task sequence with model specific targeting for a driver
package, then copy all the changes to several other task sequences. To try to simplify the administration and reduce the chance of human error and ensure consistency across the board, this would probably be the best way to ensure this.

Out-of-the-box you can't start one task sequence within another task sequence. A few workarounds:
You can make your task sequence put your computer object in a new collection which has a new task sequence targeted, but that probably won't perform that well;
You can target multiple task sequences to the same collection and try to use PowerShell to trigger a new task sequence. For example something like this (I have never tried to use this from a task sequence):
http://powersheller.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/sccm-2012-execute-task-sequence-with-powershell/
You can try to merge your current task sequences.
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Since what I'd like to do is to "pause" the current task sequence until the second task sequence has run and then resume the current task sequence (Just the apply drivers step) I don't think either would be great options. I guess the copy paste
option is what is left for me.
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