I think the second pic is closest to real life color, the orange is not as prominent as on the glaringly lit auction pics, overall the bass is brownish-reddish, yup, maroon, that's it! My Maroon 5 bass.
Visuals aside, at the end of the day this is a maho bass with a peroba top and curupay fretboard plus barts and what looks to be the standard TCT active circuit notorious from the mid-nieneties LP DeLuxe. But it sounds different. None of the harshness usually associated with that combination, the bass sounds dense with dark mids and very little overt brightness except a little on the G string. It's certainly not raunch & roll, but not Mark King either, lovers of active sounds might even criticize that the bass doesn't sound that transparent and clear at all, but rather thick in the low mids and subdued in the highs plus no artificial subwoof. I have no idea whether the top and fretboard wood account for the difference in sound (my hunch is that the curupay board probably has more to do with it than the peroba top though) to my rather harsh-sounding 95 tiger stripe LP DeLuxe five-stringer, whether it's the coated Elixier strings I used (in that case I should perhaps use them on all my active basses) or whether the TCT electronics were tweaked a little when this bass was built in 1997. I'm pleased with it in any case.
And the B string, it doth thunder, mutilate and level to submission!
