Making a 'cheap' figure of 8 microphone?

["macmang4125" macmang4125]

There was a thread a little while ago about a 'cheap' figure of 8
microphone. Well how about 'making one', after all what is a figure of
8? It's two omni's back-to-back wired together out of phase. So why
not take two Shure WL 183's mount them back-to-back wire them to the
same plug to combine both their signals but phase reverse the
right-hand facing microphone this will give you your S signal, A minus
B. Then mount that on top of a shotgun microphone with a suitable
furry wind gag and you could have a form of stereo. The shotgun giving
the focus while the two Shure WL 183's give the stereo information.
As the mic's are pip powered it might need a bit of jiggery-pokery to
do it.
I would try it but the Shure WL 183's are =A399 ($178) each over here in
the UK, while I think they are more like that a pair in the US.
Perhaps I should see if I could get them delivered to the UK for that
price?
It's a thought.
Phil