I started building the 1/1200 ships last year, when I moved form the US to Switzerland and all my modeling stuff was still in a container somewhere on the Atlantic. In the meanwhile I enjoy building those kids in between other project which don't move fast enough. I call them my "fast kills".
I used http://www.kbismarck.com/drawings.html as source for the paint scheme since all color fields on the box where white for all the different colors to be used. I decided for "Korsfjord in Norway on 21 May 1941" scheme and use Vallejo (Model Color) paints to accomplish it.