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I could use input and advice on this ive been going at different tau schemes now for two weeks painting and repainting and nothings working. My latest example of a scheme is here and I need advice on it because I can't keep repainting these models and I just want it to work.

Well depending on what you want to achieve you need to see the color wheel. The colors seem nice a smooth but they are too close on the color wheel to pop on the eye.

http://paletton.com/#uid=a4N1Z0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF

Getting the turquoise parts painted on an okra, snakebite leather kind of color will work much much better.

On the other hand adding some red will break up the model nicely according to this.

http://paletton.com/#uid=54G100kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF

Second for consulting the color wheel for some contrast. Another trick is that if you're going darker on the model, go lighter on the base so it doesn't get lost.

So there are 4 scales used to describe color.

Hue is the rainbow scale.

Tints add white.

Tones add grey.

Shades add black.

If you picture a 10 step scale, white at 1 black at 10 and 8 shades of grey between you need to make, at minimum a 2 step jump to build enough contrast that the colors stand out as distinctly different colors. The farther you go the more the colors polarize and become much more distinct. The more scales you make that jump on the same thing happens.

With hue the scale is represented as a color wheel. The opposite end of the color wheel from purple is yellow and thus it is your direct compliment. Your purples will get more purple, your yellows more yellow and everything will pop.

For a really deep purple with dark grey secondary I would throw in some splashes of a gold to accent. Or just some rustic yellow accent lines on the armor.