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My friend gave me his tau and i was wondering how the paint scheme looks ( i painted them)

Is a good start, the actual colour scheme I really like

I would maybe suggest a light drybrushing of a darkgrey to pick up the highlights on the edges of the black before painting the red on

Then youve got to base them up

good idea

Black is a good colour but in big flat quantities, such as the armour plating, it does need something to stop it from all looking one piece

I like it. But you might want to use a darker red. It's looking sort of pinkish.(Might just be the light though.)

Maybe add a grey outline to all the black armor plates, that would solve this:

it does need something to stop it from all looking one piece

and I think it would go good with the other two colors.

It looks like the GW foundation red paint. That color gives a great base coat for any shade of red. I do like the Black and Red scheme, I agree a darker red and highlights on the black and the scheme will pop.

The red does look a bit too light. The problem is if you don't have any contrast on a model it will tend to look a bit odd IMHO. I am not an experienced painter, so I am not sure how I would go about making the model have table-top "pop".

I think it looks good overall though, and all you really "need" is some highlights and/or dry-brushing to give the black some dimension and form. Right now the black just looks like a primer coat.

To repeat what others have said, it is basically good but a bit flat.

Pure black isn't a good colour -- you really want a very dark grey with highlights and pure black in the creases of the armour. This can be done with drybrushing or highlighting and hard-edge highlighting.