Installing Mountain Lion on a brand new SSD

So I'm going to be installing a new internal drive into my MBP 15" 2012 and I'm not sure how you get it all set up since its a brand new drive. I have the mountain lion thumb drive installer so a tutorial on how to set up osx with the thumb drive on a new internal drive would be great. Also I'm assuming I'll have to format the drive so how do I do that when its installed ect.
Thanks

Hi I did exactly the same yesterday! Bough an SSD from Crucial.
Basically, replace the HDD with an SSD and insert the USB Install.
Turn on your Mac and hold the option key (alt) you should see the USB Pen as an option to boot from, click this and you will be presented with a menu.
Click on disk utility, then click on your SSD on the left hand column, format it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) - this should be the default option! These are the setup options I chose:
Then go back to the main screen and click 'install OS X'.
Hope this helps!

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